Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Oki Data Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Junji Kobayashi

Hidetoshi Matsuoka

Hiroo Edakubo

Makoto Fujiki

Osamu Nagatsuka

Naohiko Fujino

Takashi Kimura

Hiroshi Kurokawa

Kouji Hashimoto

Akira Tomitaka

Kazuo Kuramoto

Jiro Naka

Noriko Hirano

Osamu Morita

Masahiro Sekine

Tatsuzo Ushiro

Masahiro Ando

Shoichi Karakida

Shuya Tanaka

Kyoji Tamura

Nobuyoshi Hattori

Satoru Toyama

Masashi Ohmori

Hitoshi Narita

Michihiko Tsunekawa

Toshihiko Nakajima

Isamu Karino

Osamu Wada

Takahiro Kawasaki

Eiji Hara

Fusami Soeda

Yoshitsugu Nakagawa

Koichiro Hori

Hisashi Nakano

Hajime Tsugeno

Mitsuhiro Nonogaki

Yusuke Oshiro

A method for manufacturing a solar-power-generator substrate by cutting out a semiconductor substrate by slicing a semiconductor ingot and then by forming a texture structure on a surface of the semiconductor substrate by performing a surface treatment on the surface of the semiconductor substrate, includes: cleaning including cleaning and removing an organic impurity and a metal impurity adhering to the surface of the semiconductor substrate with a cleaning fluid containing an oxidizing chemical; and etching including removing a damaged layer on a substrate surface generated by the slicing and forming the texture structure on the surface of the semiconductor substrate by performing anisotropic etching on the surface of the semiconductor substrate with an alkaline aqueous solution, the etching being performed subsequent to the cleaning.

Method for manufacturing solar-power-generator substrate and apparatus for manufacturing solar-power-generator substrate

An image forming apparatus includes a medium storing portion storing a recording medium, and a storage unit that stores first size information indicating a size of the stored recording medium. A receiving unit receives print data containing image data and second size information indicating a size relating to the image data. A feeding unit feeds the recording medium from the medium storage portion. An image forming unit forms an image on the recording medium. A detection unit detects a size of the recording medium fed by the feeding unit to obtain third size information. A first determining unit determines whether the first size information corresponds to the second size information. A second determining unit determines whether the third size information corresponds to the second size information. An acquiring unit acquires determination instruction information. A determination control unit causes only the second determining unit to perform determination according to the determination instruction information.

Image forming apparatus with automatic size determination

A method for analyzing a minute quantity of a material included in a different material is performed in short extraction treatment without taking a long time and the minute content is rapidly analyzed. The method of analyzing a minute content includes mounting on a sample table a sample piece of a material having a minute content of a different material to be analyzed; dropping onto the sample table a solvent for extracting the minute content from the sample piece, so that the solvent is disposed between the sample table and the sample piece; maintaining at room temperature the solvent between the sample table and the sample piece, and, with the solvent maintained between the sample table and the sample piece, extracting the material of the minute content from the sample piece; and analyzing the content extracted from the sample piece.

Method of determining minute amounts of additives in polymers

An image forming apparatus is supplied capable of feeding paper or ejecting paper to position which is desired by user. In the image forming apparatus which has medium accommodating sections, a first storing section stores accommodating section selection data correspondence information in which first medium accommodating section selection data assigned to other image forming apparatus corresponds to second medium accommodating section selection data assigned to the image forming apparatus serving as self apparatus; a receiving section receives the first medium accommodating section selection data and image data from an upper apparatus; a correcting section corrects the first medium accommodating section selection data received from the upper apparatus into second medium accommodating section selection data on the basis of the accommodating section selection data correspondence information stored in the first storing section; and a selecting section selects medium accommodating section on the basis of the second medium accommodating section selection data obtained by the correcting section.

Image forming apparatus and image forming system for managing a plurality of trays

An image forming apparatus has a mode selector that can select a mode of operation in which the image forming apparatus remains online despite an empty printing media container or another error condition. This mode enables a host device to switch from an empty printing media container to a printing media container that is not empty, a feature useful during normal operation, or to continue to issue commands and make settings despite the presence of an error, a feature useful during tests and inspection of the image forming apparatus. Tests and inspection are also facilitated by a mode that simulates the presence of non-installed optional printing media containers, or disables counters and resets error priorities.

Image forming apparatus

In disposing a display part, such as an LCD panel, on a side face of the body of a compact video camera of a rectangular parallelepiped shape extending longer in the direction of height for use as a viewfinder as well as for a reproduction display, an attempt to minimize the whole size of the video camera for improvement in portability severely limits the size of a major side of the display part, preventing the display image plane from having an easily viewable size. To solve this problem, an intermediate connection part disposed between the video camera body and the display part is arranged to enable the display part to rotate in opening and closing directions with respect to the video camera body and also to rotate in directions included in a plane at which the display part is connected to the video camera body. Further, the axis of rotation of the intermediate connection part with respect to the video camera body is arranged to deviate a predetermined distance from the center line of a minor side of the display part.

Video camera

A recording and/or reproducing apparatus having a plurality of tape transport modes is arranged such that, in changing a stop mode over to a desired mode through an intermediate tape transport mode among the plurality of tape transport modes, the tape is allowed to begin to travel when the process of mode change-over comes to the intermediate tape transport mode and the mode change-over process is continued further to the desired tape transport mode, while the tape is thus allowed to travel before the desired tape transport mode is attained. This arrangement substantially shortens the length of time required for mode change-over, so that the operability of the apparatus can be enhanced.

Recording and/or reproducing apparatus

A method for recovering impurities on a surface of a silicon wafer includes a first step of using a pretreatment solution to decompose an oxide film, a nitride film on an oxynitridation film formed at a peripheral portion on a surface of a silicon wafer and to remove impurities on the peripheral portion and a second step of recovering impurities on the surface of the wafer expect for the peripheral portion.

Apparatus for recovering impurities from a silicon wafer

A recording and/or reproducing apparatus having a rotary drum includes a first chassis assembly on which the rotary drum is provided, a second chassis assembly which is supported for sliding movement on the first chassis within a predetermined stroke, an arm rotatably provided on the first chassis assembly and having a pin at one end, the pin being engaged with a slot, which is provided in the second chassis assembly, so that the arm slides the second chassis assembly and a driving member for turning the arm in such a manner that an amount of travel of the pin in a travelling direction of the second chassis assembly is made slightly greater than a sliding stroke of the second chassis assembly. The second chassis assembly is configured adjacent the slot to allow the pin to travel when the second chassis assembly has reached the end of the sliding stroke.

Recording / reproducing apparatus with a projection provided in cutout in elastic member positioned along cam slot

A reel braking device comprises a brake member integrally provided with an abutting contact portion and an engaging portion, and an urging member. The abutting contact portion has an approximately circular arc form and is capable of coming into abutting contact with a sliding portion of an outer periphery of a reel mount, and the engaging portion is capable of engaging with an engaged portion of the outer periphery of the reel mount. The brake member is arranged to be rotatable around near the center of the approximately circular arc form of the abutting contact portion and movable toward the reel mount. The urging member is provided separately from the brake member and is arranged to urge the brake member so as to move the brake member toward the reel mount.

Recording and/or reproducing apparatus provided with rotatable and

A magnetic recording or reproducing apparatus having a rotary drum includes a sensor for detecting dew condensation on the rotary drum, a take-up reel for taking up a recording medium, and a controller for controlling the rotary drum and the take-up reel in accordance with a result of detection provided by the sensor. When dew condensation has been detected by the sensor, the controller causes the rotary drum to rotate in such a way as to release the recording medium from a state of sticking to the rotary drum and, after that, causes the recording medium to be taken up by the take-up reel.

Recording or reproducing apparatus and method for taking up tape when

An apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information on or from a tape by drawing out the tape contained in a cassette and bringing the tape into contact with a head, has a chassis and a base which are integrally formed, a slider provided with a member for drawing out the tape, the chassis having a reference surface. The base is provided with a positioning portion for positioning the slider. The positioning portion has a side which is formed in substantially parallel with a virtual line perpendicular to the reference surface of the chassis, or which is inclined away from the virtual line in the direction away from the reference surface of the chassis.

Recording and/or reproducing apparatus having a tape loading device

A cassette lid opening device for moving a lid of a cassette toward an open position, comprises a holder for holding the cassette inserted into the holder, an opening member arranged to come in contact with a lid of the cassette in association with a downward movement of the holder and to move the lid of the cassette to the open position, the opening member including a first contact part arranged to come in contact with a front end of the cassette inserted into the holder and a second contact part arranged to come in contact with a lower end of the lid of the cassette during the downward movement of the holder, and an urging member for urging the opening member in a direction opposite to a direction in which the cassette is inserted.

Recording or reproducing apparatus having cassette lid opening device

Method and apparatus for loading a cassette tape which has a detectable end includes structure and steps for detecting the detectable end of the tape. Structure and steps are also provided for determining a specific point in the course of tape loading where the length of the tape drawn out of the cassette becomes shorter than the length of the tape capable of being drawn out of the cassette after the initiation of detecting the detectable end of the tape. Structure and steps are also provided for continuing the tape loading operation and stopping the tape end detection operation after the specific point on the tape is determined.

Method and apparatus of loading a cassette tape which has a detectable

An apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information on and/or from a tape drawn from a cassette includes first and second tape guide members for guiding the tape drawn from the cassette, the first tape guide member bringing the tape into abutment with the head, and a control mechanism for, during tape loading, causing the first tape guide member to travel in a direction in which the tape is brought into abutment with the head, and also causing the second tape guide member to travel toward the cassette.

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Junji Kobayashi