Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Topcon Corporation

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Ajinomoto Co., Ltd.

Shibaura Mechatronics Corporation

Zuken, Inc.

Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Nec Electronics Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Zuken

Satoshi Nakamura

Yasuto Okabayashi

Masataka Konishi

Toshiyuki Miyata

Shogo Kamiya

Junpei Amano

Yosuke Okudaira

Norimasa Fujiwara

Yoshihiko Tokuda

Yoshihiro Hayashi

Kazuya Yonemoto

Masaaki Ishikawa

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Tetsuya Iizuka

Masakatsu Eda

Kensuke Demura

Yasuhiro Mihara

Kazushi Wada

Seijiro Tomita

Norihiko Kawada

Yoshihiro Okamoto

Masahiro Yamashita

Hidehiko Funayama

Koichi Harada

Yusuke Hagiwara

Tomo Takagi

Rie Yakushijin

Kohji Ogiwara

Mitsuaki Ogiwara

Toshihiro Suzuki

Koichi Kimura

John Thomas Contreras

Albert John Wallash

Kouichi Kimura

Atsumi Kurita

Yasutaka Naito

Yutaka Nogami

Toshiharu Kondo

Toshinori Sasaki

Mizuki Sugino

Daisuke Matsushima

Takahito Chiba

Naoki Motohashi

Noriyuki Miyoshi

Haruhiko Nishida

Makoto Kaneko

Masaya Kamiya

Shingo Akiyama

Yuhei Tomita

Hui He

Makoto Hasegawa

Minami Nakamura

Tomoyasu Aizaki

Koichi Imazu

Shingo Kitamura

Youichi Tachibana

Naoji Tsukakoshi

Junya Touno

Masato Andou

Masafumi Myouse

Masafumi Suzuki

According to one embodiment, a substrate processing apparatus includes: a stage rotatable around a central axis; a plurality of holders provided on the stage to hold a substrate; a cooler capable of supplying a cooling gas to a space between the stage and the substrate; and a liquid supply capable of supplying a liquid to a surface of the substrate on an opposite side to the stage. When holding the substrate, each of the plurality of holders moves toward the central axis along a surface of the stage so as to surround a peripheral edge of the substrate and the space between the stage and the substrate.

Substrate processing apparatus

A paper transport device includes a transport mechanism that transports paper to which an image is transferred to a fixing device while sucking the paper and a switching mechanism that switches between suction regions in a width direction of the transport mechanism, which corresponds to a width direction of the paper, according to a size of the paper.

Paper transport device

An apparatus, system, method, and a control program on a recording medium are provided, each of which: acquires first point cloud data, and second point cloud data different from the first point cloud data; sets a plurality of search start positions each used for alignment form the first point cloud data to the second point cloud data; searches, for each of one or more of the plurality of search start positions, a solution candidate for coordinate transformation from the first point cloud data to the second point cloud data, to generate a plurality of solution candidates; and determines a final solution, from the plurality of solution candidates.

Alignment apparatus, alignment system, alignment method, and recording medium

A reflective mask cleaning apparatus according to an embodiment comprises a first supply section configured to supply a first solution containing at least one of an organic solvent and a surfactant to a ruthenium-containing capping layer provided in a reflective mask; and a second supply section configured to supply at least one of a reducing solution and an oxygen-free solution to the capping layer. A reflective mask cleaning apparatus according to an alternative embodiment comprises a third supply section configured to supply a plasma product produced from a reducing gas to a ruthenium-containing capping layer provided in a reflective mask; and a second supply section configured to supply at least one of a reducing solution and an oxygen-free solution to the capping layer.

Reflective mask cleaning apparatus and reflective mask cleaning method

An information display method displays brain activity information calculated using a biological signal measured from a living body so as to be superimposed on a morphological image including a plurality of sectional images. The information display method includes: acquiring mask information representing an area belonging to a brain in the morphological image; and detecting one or more extremal value positions with spatial extremal values in the brain activity information based on the mask information. A sectional image corresponding to the one or more extremal value positions is acquired from the morphological image. A brain activity distribution corresponding to the sectional image is acquired. The brain activity distribution is displayed so as to be superimposed on the sectional image.

Information display method, information display device, information display system, and computer-readable medium

Hemicellulase that degrades corn non-starch polysaccharides ('NSP'), DNA encoding the same, and a method of using the hemicellulase and its DNA are provided. Proteins having hemicellulase activity such as Xyn5A, Xyn10B, Xyn11A, Xyn30A, and Xyn43A are described.

Hemicellulase compositions

An information processing apparatus includes a conversion unit configured to convert circuit configuration data representing a configuration of an electric circuit including an input terminal group and an output terminal group into circuit calculation data including an equation group that generates an output signal group corresponding to an argument group given to a variable group and an input signal group given to the input terminal group, wherein the argument group includes a constant representing a characteristic of a circuit element that forms the electric circuit.

Information processing apparatus, program, and simulation method

A transport device includes a first transport member that orbits in a predetermined direction and transports a sheet-like medium; a second transport member that forms a first sandwiching region that is curved and a second sandwiching region that is curved in a direction opposite to the first sandwiching region between the first transport member and the second transport member, and sandwiches and transports the medium in the first sandwiching region and the second sandwiching region; and a changing unit that changes a positional relationship between the first transport member and the second transport member so as to increase a width of the other of the first sandwiching region and the second sandwiching region in a transport direction of the medium without increasing a width of one of the first sandwiching region and the second sandwiching region in the transport direction of the medium.

Transport device and image forming apparatus

To provide a surveying device whereby there is no need to remove a light-receiving part when removing a handle. A surveying device is provided with a handle having a cantilever structure provided with a rod-shaped grip part and a handgrip support part for supporting one end of the grip part, and a body having a top-part structure having a two-headed structure configured from a body part and a body part extending upward, a light-receiving part for optical communication is provided, a handgrip support part in which the rod-shaped grip part is fixed in a detachable state is fixed to a top part of the body part, and the handgrip support part is fixed in a detachable state to a top part of the body part.

Surveying device

A system and method for calculating image similarity, each of which generates a retouch image using characteristic amounts relating to color, respectively obtained from a first image and a second image, and calculates similarity between the first image and the second image based on at least the retouch image.

System and method for calculating image similarity and recording medium

The invention provides a surveying instrument, in which an output shaft of an ultrasonic motor is attachably and detachably connected by a bolt to a lower end of a horizontal shaft of a frame unit supported rotatably in a horizontal direction, a rotating plate is fixed to the output shaft, a vibration generating component is formed on an outer circumferential portion of the rotating plate, a stator in close contact with the vibration generating component via a predetermined friction torque T1 is rotatably provided on the output shaft, the stator is restricted on a rotation by a whirl-stop unit, ultrasonic vibration is generated in the vibration generating component and the output shaft is rotated.

Surveying instrument

The invention provides a surveying instrument, which comprises a frame unit provided capable of rotating horizontally via a horizontal rotation shaft, a telescope unit provided capable of rotating vertically via a vertical rotation shaft in a recessed portion formed in the frame unit, a vertical rotation driving unit in which a vertical output shaft is connected to the vertical rotation shaft, and a whirl-stop unit provided on an outer side of a side plate of the frame unit along the side plate and connecting the vertical rotation driving unit and the frame unit to each other.

Disclosed herein are printed circuit boards (PCBs) with patterned ground structure filters and data storage devices comprising such PCBs. Each PCB comprises a resonator having an L-shape or a zig-zag shape in a plane of the printed circuit board and at least one signal trace. The resonator has a first dimension and a second dimension in the plane of the printed circuit board. A portion of the at least one signal trace is situated over the resonator and is separated by a distance from the resonator by a dielectric material. In some embodiments, at least part of the portion of the at least one signal trace extends in a same direction as the first dimension (in the case of an L-shaped resonator) or tracks the zig-zag shape of the resonator (in the case of a zig-zag-shaped resonator).

Patterned ground structure filter designs with improved performance

The invention provides an ultrasonic motor, which is an ultrasonic motor provided on a shaft end of a rotation shaft. An output shaft of the ultrasonic motor is connected to the rotation shaft, a stator is rotatably provided on the output shaft, a rotor is fixed to the rotation shaft, a vibration generating component for generating an ultrasonic vibration is provided on either one of the rotor or the stator. A whirl-stop unit is provided between the stator and a fixed side for supporting the rotation shaft: the whirl-stop unit has a joint holder provided on the fixed side and a connection element provided on the stator: the joint holder has a ball holder for pressing a metal ball to the connection element in a circumferential direction and a connection pin holding the connection element between the ball holder and the connection pin, spanning over the joint holder and capable of tilting.

Ultrasonic motor and surveying instrument

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Kanagawa, Japan

Satoshi Nakamura