Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Shinichiro Takahama

Hidetada Narahara

Takeshi Yamamoto

Takashi Nakamura

Manabu Umeyama

Koji Tomoda

Noriyuki Suzuki

Masahiko Igaki

Masafumi Wataya

Toru Nakayama

Akira Kuronuma

Yasuyuki Miyaoka

Yasutomo Watanabe

Takuji Katsu

Yasumichi Arimitsu

Sohei Tanaka

A transport system includes a transport path having at least two transporting modules, a carriage configured to move on the transport path, a controller provided on each of the two transporting modules and configured to drive the carriage in response to a drive command, and a sensor provided on each of the two transporting modules. The drive command is corrected with a distance between the sensors provided on the two transporting modules.

Transport system, transport method, and article manufacturing method

An embodiment includes a plurality of transport modules forming a transport path on which a carriage that transports a workpiece travels, and a control unit that controls a position of the carriage on the plurality of transport modules based on a drive instruction, and the control unit corrects the drive instruction during carriage motion that is based on the drive instruction and stops the carriage.

Transport system and manufacturing method of article

A displacement detection apparatus includes a scaleon which marks are disposed, first and second position detection sensorsanddetecting positions of the marks, and a processorperforming a calculation processing of an output signal from each of the first and second position detection sensorsand. The first and second position detection sensorsandare disposed at a distance L from each other to be movable relative to the scale. The processorcalculates a correction value P' of a mark pitch P of the marksusing the distance L, a first time Trequired for K marks of the marksto pass a detection position, and a second time Trequired for a specific mark of the marks, which are measured at the same time of the first time T, to move the distance L.

Displacement detection apparatus and method of correcting error of scale used for displacement detection apparatus

There is provided an identification technique that can consistently maintain a set of information specifying a specimen through all the processes from the amplification process to the detection process of a specific sequence. A base sequence incorporating as a set of decodable information an individual code imparted to the specimen is disposed in an amplifiable region to form an identifier; the identifier is amplified together with the specimen and the presence of the identifier in the amplification product is detected; thus, the individual code of the specimen in the amplification product can be recognized, which specimen the amplification product is derived from can be easily identified, and whether or not the amplification has been carried out satisfactorily can also be simultaneously tested.

Identifier and nucleic acid amplification method of verification using the same

This invention provides a low-cost, economical printing apparatus and printing system. For example, characteristic information of a printhead which is described, printed, adhered, or formed on a printhead or its accessory (e.g., a packaging paper box) in a format identifiable to human or an electronic device is man-machine-interactively inputted to a host or electronically inputted to the host by a barcode reader or the like. The printing apparatus discriminates whether or not a command sent from the host via an interface is a command that includes characteristic information of the printhead, and control is made to write the characteristic information of the print head into a non-volatile memory (EEPROM) in accordance with the discriminating result. The printhead is controlled in accordance with the characteristic information written into the non-volatile memory to execute a print process.

Printing apparatus and printing system

A locking system has a double locking mechanisms such that when a main body of an electronic equipment and an extension device are combined, an operability similar to that in case of using a single equipment is maintained and the combination is not separated at the time of carrying and which enables a more intelligent control by a built-in MPU and in which a high reliability is obtained. In an electronic equipment system in which a main body and an extension device are freely combined, an open-close-lever which is interlocked with movable claws is arranged on the side surface of the extension device, retaining holes to fix the movable claws are formed in the main body, an electronic locking unit comprising a mechanism having a cam portion adapted to lock the opening or closing of the lever and an electronic motor for making the cam operative is installed in the extension device. The movable claws couple and fix the main body and the extension device by closing the open-close-lever. At the time of the power-ON of the main body and extension device, an electronic locking acts, thereby disabling the locking to be released, and at the time of the power-OFF, the locking can be released. A connecting state between the electronic equipment and the extension device is discriminated from two sensors for detecting the opening/closing of the open-close-lever and the latching of the electronic locking.

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Matsudo, Japan

Shinichiro Takahama