Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Disco Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kyocera Corporation

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Tomoaki Sugiyama

Kiyoshi Tatsuhara

Takashi Kurisaki

Atsushi Tanaka

Yasushi Mori

Saki Miyakawa

Yoshio Inagaki

Katsuhiko Suzuki

Norihisa Kobayashi

Akinori Yasutake

Masayuki Kyomoto

Toshihiko Setoguchi

Yoshiro Osaki

Masahiko Nagai

Naoko Satoh

Toshiki Mori

Nariyuki Tomonaga

Ikumasa Koshiro

Naoki Morikawa

Sadao Tanikoshi

Kenji Kimiyama

Kazuhiko Ide

Nobutaka Shinohara

Hirohiko Kozai

Kota Kikuchi

Toshiyuki Ikoma

Takanori Suto

Takashi Sasaki

Takahiko Tsuno

Hisashi Arakida

Hiroaki Igashira

Takuya Kaminaga

Takashi Cho

Yugo Fukuyama

Michimasa Kamo

An inspecting apparatus for inspecting a test piece. The inspecting apparatus includes a test piece holding mechanism for holding the test piece, the test piece holding mechanism having a mounting portion formed from a transparent member having upper and lower exposed surfaces, the upper exposed surface of the transparent member functioning as a mounting surface for mounting the test piece, whereby the test piece mounted on the mounting surface of the mounting portion is adapted to be held by the test piece holding mechanism. The inspecting apparatus further includes an imaging mechanism for imaging the test piece held by the test piece holding mechanism, the imaging mechanism having a first imaging unit provided above the mounting portion, a second imaging unit provided below the mounting portion, and a connecting portion for connecting the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit.

Inspecting apparatus and processing apparatus including the same

The object of the present invention is to provide an antibacterial material capable of sustaining antibacterial properties for a long time. The object can be solved by a silver-containing calcium phosphate sintered body having silver particles therein, wherein an average particle diameter of the silver particles is 0.01 to 0.5 &#x3bc;m.

Silver-containing calcium phosphate sintered body and method for producing same

A cutting apparatus having a cutting blade for cutting a workpiece held on a chuck table is disclosed. The cutting apparatus includes an elastic wave detecting sensor for detecting an elastic wave due to the rotation of the cutting blade, a reference data storing section configured to store reference data as a set of reference processing elastic wave data and reference idling elastic wave data, a threshold value storing section, a ratio calculating section, and a determining section.

Cutting apparatus

A wafer processing method for processing a wafer having devices on the front side is provided. The wafer processing method includes a back grinding step of grinding the wafer to form a recess and an annular reinforcing portion surrounding the recess on the back side of the wafer, and a dividing step of cutting the wafer along division lines formed on the front side of the wafer. In the back grinding step, a taper surface is formed between the bottom surface of the recess and the annular reinforcing portion. The taper surface is inclined with respect to a direction perpendicular to the bottom surface of the recess. In the dividing step, a cutting blade is lowered to start cutting at a position radially inside the outer circumference of the wafer and is subsequently raised to stop cutting at another position radially inside the outer circumference of the wafer.

Wafer processing method

A cutting apparatus includes a cutting unit including a cutting blade that has a cutting edge for cutting a dresser board. An elastic wave detection sensor is disposed in the cutting unit, for detecting an elastic wave produced when the dresser board is cut. The elastic wave detection sensor produces an output signal representing the detected elastic wave when the cutting blade cuts the dresser board and is dressed thereby, the output signal being variable as the cutting blade is progressively dressed by the dresser board. A control unit stores in advance, as a threshold value, the value of the output signal when the dressing of the cutting blade is completed. The control unit stops cutting the dresser board with the cutting blade and finishes the dressing of the cutting blade when the output signal produced by the elastic wave detection sensor reaches the threshold value.

Catalyst support means for producing a fluid catalyst; a reduction basin that pretreats an active metal of the obtained fluid catalyst in a reducing atmosphere; a fluid bed reactor which is supplied with a reduction-treated fluid catalyst having undergone the reduction, for producing a nanocarbon material; and a moisture application basin for supplying a slight amount of moisture to a source gas to be supplied to the aforementioned fluid bed reactor are provided.

Apparatus and method for producing nanocarbon material

The present invention provides a catalyst for forming carbon nanotubes that improves a yield at the time of manufacturing carbon nanotubes and enables continuous mass production of carbon nanotubes with high purity. The catalyst for forming carbon nanotubes of the present invention includes a carrier that includes MgO and a metal catalyst that is supported by the carrier, and the concentration of the MgO in the carrier is set equal to 99 mass % or higher.

Catalyst for forming carbon nanotubes

It is provided a recorder apparatus in which a user can use simply and efficiently plural functions which can be performed simultaneously. According to an embodiment of the invention, a recorder apparatus has a display, an input section for a video being inputted, a random access recording medium for recording the video, an output section for outputting the video recorded in the recording medium, a multitask control section, a display control section and a reception section for receiving an specification of the tab and the direction of the video for a processing target for the selected function. The multitask control section performs plural functions in parallel simultaneously which plural functions includes a function for recording the inputted video in the recording medium. The display control section displays tabs assigned to the plural functions respectively and processing situation of the function selected by specifying the tab on the display.

Recorder apparatus

Included are a nano-carbon material production unit for producing a nano-carbon material using a fluidized catalyst formed by granulating a carrier supporting an active component, an acid treatment unit for dissolving and separating a catalyst by an acid solution by feeding a catalyst-containing nano-carbon material into the acid solution, and a pH adjustment unit, which is an anti-agglomeration treatment unit, provided on a downstream side of the acid treatment unit, for performing an anti-agglomeration treatment to prevent agglomeration among nano-carbons due to repulsion caused by dissociation among oxygen-containing functional groups added to the nano-carbon material.

Nano-carbon material production apparatus and method

A first prediction unit performs intra-prediction of an original image corresponding to an inter-frame coded frame to produce a first prediction residual and a prediction parameter. A second prediction unit performs intra-prediction of local decode data corresponding to the inter-frame coded data with the prediction parameter to produce a second prediction residual. A subtractor calculates difference data between the first prediction residual and the second prediction residual. A third prediction unit performs intra-prediction of data corresponding to a decoded frame with the prediction parameter to produce a third prediction residual, when the inter-frame coded data is decoded and transformed into the intra-frame coded data. An adder calculates addition data of the third prediction residual and the differential data. An intra-frame coding unit performs intra-frame coding to the addition data.

Coding apparatus, coding method, and coding system

An apparatus for regenerating an adsorbent includes an electrolytic cell filled with an electrolyte and an electrode unit that includes a first electrode made from the adsorbent in which a substance is adsorbed and a second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode are soaked in the electrolyte. The apparatus also includes a power source that supplies a voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Method of and apparatus for regenerating adsorbent

A serial transmission path switching system includes a matrix switch section for switching N&#xd7;M lines at a fixed rate. An optical receiving section is connected to receive an optical signal from an optical transmission path, photoelectrically convert it, and supply it to the matrix switch section. An optical transmitting section is connected to convert an output from the matrix switch section into an optical signal and send it to an optical transmission path. An input buffer is connected to the terminal of the optical transmission path connected to the optical receiving section to equalize the input signal from an input-side communication device, convert the signal into an optical signal, and send it to the optical transmission path. An output buffer is connected to the terminal of the optical transmission path connected to the optical transmitting section to convert an optical signal from the optical transmitting section into an electrical signal, equalize it, and output it to an output-side communication device.

Serial transmission path switching system

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Tomoaki Sugiyama