Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Takashi Satoh

Hideki Ina

Minoru Yoshii

Masanori Takahashi

Masanobu Hasegawa

Osamu Ozawa

Yoshihiro Soeda

Kenji Niibori

Yasushi Shioya

Noriaki Kuroda

Shigeru Yamauchi

Susumu Hatanaka

Daisuke Irii

Katuhiro Tanaka

Katsumi Kurematsu

Tetsuji Kawazura

Kazunori Ishikawa

Shuji Takahashi

Hiroshi Takabayashi

Yuichi Hara

Jiro Watanabe

Gou Kawaguchi

Yuji Kawamori

Akisato Katanosaka

Noriko Matoba

Toshio Maruyama

A position detecting system includes a light source device for providing coherent light, an incoherence-transforming device for transforming the coherent light from the light source device, into incoherent light, an optical system for dividing the incoherent light from the incoherence-transforming device into divided light, wherein one of the divided light beams produces an intermediate image, and light from the intermediate image is directed to illuminate a target upon a surface of an object while another of divided light beams is directed to be reflected by a surface which is optically conjugate with the intermediate image, and wherein light from the target and light reflected by the conjugate surface are re-combined, an image pickup device for producing an imagewise signal corresponding to the target on the basis of the light re-combined by the optical system, wherein positional information related to a position of the target with respect to a direction along the surface of the object can be produced on the basis of the imagewise signal, and an image contrast adjusting device for adjusting image contrast of an image of a portion close to the target, as picked up by the image pickup device.

Position detecting system and exposure apparatus using the same

A high pressure rubber hose has a plurality of reinforced layers. Each reinforced layer is buried by way of an intermediate rubber layer between an inner rubber layer and an outer rubber layer, in which an organic fiber reinforced layer braided from organic fiber cords into two spiral layers or one braided layer is disposed to the inner rubber layer on the outer circumference thereof. A steel wire reinforced layer braided from steel wires into two spiral layers is disposed to the organic fiber reinforced layer at the outer circumference thereof. The braiding angle of the organic fiber reinforced layer is less than braiding angle of the steel wire reinforced layer and the braiding tension of the organic fiber reinforced layer is higher than the braiding tension of the steel wire reinforced layer.

High pressure rubber hose and manufacturing method thereof

An alignment method for aligning first and second objects, in an exposure apparatus for transferring a pattern of the first object onto the second object as being coated with a resist, includes a process of producing an alignment offset value related to an alignment mark forming region on the second object, after formation of the resist coating thereon, and a process of aligning the first object with the second object as being coated with the resist, in the exposure apparatus, on the basis of the offset value as produced.

Alignment method and exposure apparatus using the same

A thermoplastic elastomer composition which, when used for the inner tube and/or outer cover of a hose, can improve the hose flexibility at an ordinary temperature and low temperature, oil resistance, and cold resistance and can reduce the production costs since it does not require a vulcanization step and a hose having said properties using this elastomer composition for its inner tube and/or outer cover and a process and apparatus for the production thereof.

Thermoplastic elastomer composition and process of production thereof and hose using thermoplastic elastomer composition and process of production thereof

Thermoplastic elastomer composition, process for the preparation there of, hose made by using the composition, and process for the production thereof

Thermoplastic elastomer composition, hose comprising thermoplastic

An impact-resistant display apparatus is constituted by a display panel, a drive circuit for driving the display panel, a face plate disposed in front of the display panel, and a support member for supporting the display panel and the drive circuit. The display apparatus further includes a first elastic member between a rear side of the display panel and the support member, and a second elastic member between a front side of the display panel and the face plate. The first and second elastic members may preferably respectively define and almost closed space together with adjacent associate members so as to provide an air damper-effect.

Display apparatus with elastic members, display panel, panel-fixing

A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel for data display comprising a pair of oppositely disposed substrates and a liquid crystal disposed between the substrates, a sheet of substantially transparent protection plate disposed opposite to and with a prescribed gap from a display surface of the liquid crystal panel for protecting the liquid crystal panel, and a polarizer sheet for selectively transmitting light having a plane of polarization in a prescribed direction disposed on at least the display surface of the liquid crystal panel. The display apparatus further includes an anti-reflection film disposed on at least a front surface on an opposite side with respect to the liquid crystal panel of the protection plate among two surfaces of the protection plate and a surface of the polarizer sheet. The anti-reflection film comprises a layer structure including at least one layer for promoting optical interference to decrease reflected light brightness and provided with surface unevennesses at a prescribed pitch.

Liquid crystal display apparatus and anti-reflection film applicable

Display apparatus

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Takashi Satoh