Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Screen Holdings Co., Ltd.

Kaneka Corporation

Tetsuya Shibata

Yukifumi Yoshida

Nobuyuki Shibayama

Akiyoshi Nakano

Tomonori Fujiwara

Katsumi Nagata

Takeshi Nakamura

Shigeki Nakahara

Tamotsu Shuto

Masahiro Inoue

Makoto Nakabayashi

Shinsaku Tohki

Tetsuya Nishino

Tetsuya Minami

Tomonori Iwamoto

Tsutomu Taniguchi

Hiroaki Nakamura

Hidekazu Oohara

A substrate processing apparatus includes: a spin base rotatable in a horizontal plane about a centered rotary axis; a holder to hold a substrate above the spin base; a lower surface processing unit to discharge a processing liquid toward a lower surface of the substrate held by the holder. The holder includes: a plurality of first abutting members that abut the substrate from a position obliquely below said substrate and that hold the substrate in a horizontal posture in a position spaced from an upper surface of said spin base; a plurality of second abutting members that abut the substrate from a position lateral to said substrate and that hold said substrate in a horizontal posture in a position spaced from the upper surface of said spin base. A switching mechanism switches between a first holding condition state where the first abutting members hold the substrate and a second holding condition state where the second abutting members hold the substrate; wherein, in the second holding condition state, the first abutting members are spaced from the substrate, and in the first holding condition state, an upper surface of the substrate is in a position above an upper end surface of each of the first and second abutting members are spaced from the substrate.

Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method

A substrate processing apparatus includes: a substrate holder to hold a substrate in a horizontal posture while rotating the substrate about a vertical rotary axis passing through the center of a plane of the substrate; a guard member having a shape extending along at least part of a surface peripheral area of the substrate, the guard member being placed in a position close to the surface peripheral area of the substrate held by the substrate holder in a noncontact manner; a cup being a tubular member with an open top end, the cup being provided so as to surround the substrate held by the substrate holder and the guard member together; and a nozzle from which a processing liquid is discharged to the surface peripheral area of the substrate held by the substrate holder. The nozzle is placed on a side opposite the cup with respect to at least part of the guard member.

When a handwritten image is input using a handwriting input device while an image based on any general data stored in a storage unit is being displayed on a display unit, the input/output apparatus displays a handwritten image in addition to the displayed image, and creates handwritten data including data specifying information specifying general data which is a basis for the displayed image. The input/output apparatus terminates the display of the handwritten image when the display of the image superposed by the handwritten image is terminated, and displays the image based on the data specified by the data specifying information included in the handwritten data when the handwritten image is displayed. This allows the association between the displayed image and the handwritten image to be saved and to easily be reproduced.

Input/output apparatus for displaying superposed images including a handwritten image

A data transmission system is provided that enables a user to move away before the completion of data transmission regardless of whether a refund is made in association with occurrence of a communication error when a data transmitting apparatus performs data transmission and collects a consideration. The data transmitting apparatus includes a consideration receiving portion that receives a consideration of FAX data transmission, a report destination input portion that inputs a report destination of a user, and a FAX transmission error detecting portion that detects a communication error at the time of the FAX data transmission. In case the FAX transmission error detecting portion detects a communication error, the system including the data transmitting apparatus transmits refund information for refunding the consideration of the FAX data transmission with the communication error to the report destination input through the report destination input portion.

Data transmission system and data transmitting method

The present invention provides a pre-expanded particulate polyolefin-based resin capable of easily attaining satisfactory secondary expandability, satisfactory surface appearance, and satisfactory dimensional stability even when it is intended to obtain an in-mold expansion molded article having a thin-wall shape. The present invention provides a pre-expanded particulate polypropylene-based resin including a polypropylene-based resin X as a base resin, where the resin X includes a resin mixture of at least a polypropylene-based resin A having a melting point of 140&#xb0; C. or lower and a polypropylene-based resin B having a melting point of 145&#xb0; C. or higher, and the resin mixture is modified by an organic peroxide so as to have a melt index of 5 g/10 min or more and less than 20 g/10 min.

Pre-expanded particulate polypropylene-based resin and in-mold expansion molded article

A pre-expanded polypropylene resin particle can be produced in the following manner: a polypropylene resin particle produced by an under water cut method, water, a dispersing agent, and a foaming agent are charged in a pressure-resistant container, the resulting mixture is heated to a temperature equal to or higher than the softening temperature of the polypropylene resin particle to allow the polypropylene resin particle to be impregnated with the foaming agent under pressure, and the resulting product is released into the atmosphere having a pressure lower than the pressure of the inside of the pressure-resistant container. As the polypropylene resin composition, a composition is used which comprises 100 parts by weight of a polypropylene resin and 1 to 20 parts by weight of a polyethylene resin having a melt viscosity of 10 to 2000 mPa&#xb7;s at 140&#xb0; C., whereby it becomes possible to reduce the pressure of a heated molding vapor required for producing an in-mold expanded molding product having a fusion rate of 75% or higher.

Pre-expanded polypropylene resin particle, and method for production thereof

A network communication device has a function as a network facsimile device for carrying out sending and receiving of data via a network. A facsimile document data is transmitted as e-mail. The device is capable of setting information indicative of whether or not the transmission confirmation response by Message Disposition Notification (MDN) is required, according to a receiver when sending the e-mail. On this account, it is possible to provide a network communication device capable of preventing unnecessary waiting for transmission confirmation response or unnecessary output of a record of failure of transmission.

Network communication device

A network communication device is provided with e-mail message composing means and e-mail message transmitting/receiving means. The e-mail message composing means has functions of incorporating an MDN request and return transmission conditions into an e-mail message and of consolidating MDN responses for multiple received e-mail messages into a collective MDN response to compose a single e-mail message. The e-mail message transmitting/receiving means has a function of recognizing the MDN request and the return transmission conditions. The network communication device is further provided with: reception result monitoring means which monitors the reception of an e-mail message to see whether it is a success or failure and which composes an MDN response; and disposition notification controlling means which monitors return transmission conditions incorporated in a received e-mail message and which, if the return transmission conditions are met, instructs the e-mail message composing means to compose a collective MDN response and the e-mail message transmitting/receiving means to transmit the composed collective MDN response. Thus, the invention enables collective confirmation of MDN responses to multiple e-mail messages.

Network communication device for transmitting/receiving an email message containing a disposition notification request

The present invention provides an information processing device that comprises an information storage section for storing device setting information of the information processing device and a program for bringing the information processing device into operation; a firmware version judgment section for comparing, upon reception of updating data that includes device setting information and version information, the version information of a program contained in the updating data and version information of the program stored in the storage section; wherein: an upgrading judgment section brings the acquirement section into operation to obtain a program corresponding to the version information of a program contained in the updating data so as to update the program stored in the storage section and the device setting information when the version information of a program contained in the updating data and the version information of the program stored in the storage section are not identical, and updates the device setting information when the version information of a program contained in the updating data and the version information of the program stored in the storage section are identical.

Image forming device including means for automatically updating device program and device setting information

A multifunctional device extracts identification information items from received device-cloning file data items and determines whether a data restoration process is a backup process or a cloning process based on whether or not a serial number in the identification information items is identical with a serial number in a multifunctional device having received the device-cloning file data items. In the backup process, specific information items and general information items are restored. In the cloning process, only general information items are restored.

Information communication device and condition setting method

A network communication device measures an elapsed time from the transmission of facsimile data prepared by an e-mail message composing section to the reception of a delivery verification response by a clock section. In accordance with the measurement, a time managing section changes a waiting time by which an occurrence of a timeout error is determined to, for example, a mean value or a maximum value. This sets the waiting time to an optimal value suitable to a network environment, for example.

A communication system serving as a transmitter terminal and a receiver terminal for communications with a second communication system via a communication line, the communication system includes a storage section for data storage; a communication section for data communications, the communication section being adapted for reception and transmission of data and size information indicative of the size of the data with respect to the second communication system; a detection section for detecting a free space in the storage section; a comparing section for comparing the data size contained in the size information with the size of the free space in the storage section; a calculating section for, if the storage section is short of free space for accommodation of the data size, calculating a waiting period required for recovery from the shortage of the free space in the storage section; and a timer section for timing the lapse of the waiting period.

Communication system and method, and storage medium for the system

A conventional facsimile machine re-dials by using another telephone line after an elapse of a predetermined period of time since when a communication error after a line connection has occurred, so that it takes a predetermined period of time to re-dial by using the other telephone line, and hence a receiving end may receive data transmitted from another facsimile machine during this period. In order to prevent that, a facsimile machine of the present invention comprises: a plurality of line connecting means, each of which has a telephone line for transmitting/receiving data; a line selecting section for selecting a telephone line to be used when a plurality of telephone lines are connected; and an auto-dial sending section for changing over the telephone line currently selected by the line selecting section to another telephone line so as to make a call immediately, when the receiving end is busy.

Facsimile machine

An apparatus for compressing text data generated in advance uses character data defined in a code table. The apparatus includes a word extractor which extracts words to be coded from the words in the text data; a code allotter which allots a code to each extracted word that is defined in the code table and different from the codes allotted for the character data; a dictionary generator which generates a dictionary for defining a correspondence between the extracted words and the respective codes allotted to the extracted words; a code replacer which replaces the extracted words with their respective allotted codes to compress the text data; and a storage device which stores the generated dictionary and the compressed text data. The data amount for each text is reduced to improve the storage efficiency of a memory.

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Yawata, Japan

Tetsuya Shibata