Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Screen Holdings Co., Ltd.

Ryuichi Yoshida

Yasuyuki Shimohata

Goro Abe

Yusuke Yamasoto

Kimiharu Hyodo

Koji Nishiyama

Toru Momma

Chikara Sagae

Hiromi Murachi

Hiroyuki Ogura

Hiroyuki Takeuchi

Shogo Yoshida

Yasumasa Nakai

Hiroto Yada

Tatsuya Niwa

Yukihiko Inagaki

Koji Nishi

Tatsuhisa Tsuji

Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus that performs a heat treatment to a substrate. The apparatus includes the following elements: a heat treating plate; a casing that produces a heat treatment atmosphere by the heat treating plate; a movable top board that is movable between a ceiling surface of the casing and the heat treating plate; and a controller that causes the movable top board to be moved to a raised position when the substrate is loaded/unloaded, and causes the movable top board to be moved to a lowered position when the substrate is placed on the heat treating plate for performing the heat treatment, thereby controlling the lowered position for every substrate.

Substrate treating apparatus

In a substrate cleaning device, with a polishing head in contact with one surface of a substrate rotated by a spin chuck, the polishing head is moved at least between a center and an outer periphery of the substrate. Thus, the one surface of the substrate is polished by the polishing head, and contaminants present on the one surface of the substrate are removed. At this time, capacity for removing contaminants by the polishing head is changed according to a position in a radial direction of the substrate. The capacity for removing contaminants refers to capacity for scraping contaminants adhering to the one surface of the substrate, and suction marks, contact marks and the like remaining on the one surface of the substrate by polishing. It is possible to change the capacity for removing contaminants by adjusting a pushing force exerted on the one surface of the substrate from the polishing head, for example.

Substrate cleaning device, substrate processing apparatus, substrate cleaning method and substrate processing method

A coating method of coating a substrate with a chemical includes a solvent supplying step and a chemical supplying step. In the solvent supplying step, a solvent is supplied to the substrate. After the solvent supplying step, the chemical is supplied to the substrate in the chemical supplying step. The solvent supplying step includes a first step. The first step causes the substrate to rotate at a first rotation speed, causes a solvent nozzle to move between a central position above a center portion of the substrate and a peripheral position above a peripheral portion of the substrate, and causes the solvent nozzle to dispense the solvent.

Coating method

An example system is provided that controls a standby time for performing contactless communication based on whether the device performing the communication is a stationary or portable device.

Settlement system, information processing device and server device

A rotating substrate is cleaned by a polishing head and a cleaning brush. A first trajectory is formed by movement of the polishing head along a first path. A second trajectory is formed by movement of the cleaning brush along a second path. A region in which the first and second paths overlap with each other is defined as an interference region. The polishing head moves from a center towards an outer peripheral end of the substrate, and it is determined whether the polishing head has moved out of the interference region. At a time point at which it is determined that the polishing head has moved out of the interference region, the cleaning brush starts moving from the outer peripheral end towards the center of the substrate.

Substrate cleaning device, substrate processing apparatus and substrate cleaning method

A substrate cleaning device includes a cleaning brush having a circular upper end surface, and cleans a lower surface of a substrate by bringing the upper end surface of the cleaning brush into contact with the lower surface of the substrate rotated by a spin chuck. A space forming member is provided for cleaning of the cleaning brush. The space forming member has a lower end surface. Further, the space forming member has a circular opening in a lower end surface and forms an inner space. A cleaning liquid is supplied to the inner space of the space forming member with the circular opening closed by the upper end surface of the cleaning brush, whereby the cleaning liquid is allowed to flow out from the inner space through the circular opening and a gap between the upper end surface of the cleaning brush and the lower end surface of the space forming member.

Substrate cleaning device and substrate processing apparatus including the same

An example of information processing system includes a storage device; and an information processing device for performing near field communication with the storage device. The storage device includes a storage unit storing application data usable in a predetermined application program and shared data usable in an application program regardless of whether the application program is the predetermined application program. The information processing system receives an instruction regarding data read and/or data write from/to the storage device from an application program to be executed by the information processing device. Under the condition that the instruction is from the predetermined application program, the application data is passed to the predetermined application program. Regardless of whether the instruction is from the predetermined application program, the shared data is passed to the application program that issued the instruction.

Information processing system, information processing device, storage medium storing information processing program, information processing method, and storage device

A device of an example is a portable information processing device performing settlement processing concerning purchase of a merchandise article or a right in cooperation with a given server, comprising: a non-contact communication unit performing non-contact communication with a data storage medium; a data acquisition unit acquiring data stored in the data storage medium, through the non-contact communication unit as a part of the settlement processing; a settlement processing unit performing settlement based on the data acquired by the data acquisition unit, in cooperation with the server, as a part of the settlement processing; a detection unit detecting at least one of attitude, movement, and a placement state of the own device; and a restriction unit acquiring a detection result from the detection unit and then, when the detection result does not satisfy a given condition, restricting performing of at least a part of the settlement processing.

Portable information processing device, settlement system, recording medium, and information processing method

Information processing system, information processing device, storage medium storing information processing program, and storage device

An example of information processing system includes a storage device; and an information processing device for performing near field communication with the storage device. The storage device includes a storage unit storing application data usable in a predetermined application program and shared data usable in an application program regardless of whether or not the application program is the predetermined application program. The information processing system accepts an instruction regarding data read and/or data write from/to the storage device from an application program to be executed by the information processing device. Under the condition that the instruction is from the predetermined application program, the application data is transferred to the predetermined application program. Regardless of whether or not the instruction is from the predetermined application program, the shared data is transferred to the application program that issued the instruction.

An example of information processing system includes a storage device; and an information processing device for performing near field communication with the storage device. The storage device has an external appearance representing, three-dimensionally or two-dimensionally, an object that appears in a virtual space generated by execution of a predetermined application program by the information processing device. The storage device stores object information on the object. The information processing device writes, to the storage device, character image information specifying an image of a character created based on an instruction of a user. The information processing device executes a predetermined process using at least one of the object information and the character image information read from the storage device.

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Kyoto, Japan

Ryuichi Yoshida