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| 20090190112 | Exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method - A lithographic projection apparatus includes an illumination system that conditions a radiation beam, a support structure that holds a patterning device, the patterning device being capable of imparting the radiation beam with a pattern. a substrate table that holds a substrate, and a projection system that projects the patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate. In addition, a liquid supply system provides a liquid to a space between the projection system and the substrate, the liquid supply system having a member. A liquid seal device forms a liquid seal between the member and the substrate. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20110025996 | Exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method - An immersion liquid is supplied to a space between a projection system and a substrate, and a patterned beam of radiation is projected through the liquid onto a target portion of the substrate using the projection system. A liquid retaining member is replaced with a table member that holds the substrate at an opposite position to the projection system while the liquid is maintained in contact with the projection system so as to transit from a first state to a second state, the first state in which the liquid is maintained between the projection system and the liquid retaining member, the second state in which the liquid is maintained between the projection system and the table member. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110025997 | Exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method - An immersion liquid is supplied to a space between a projection system and a substrate, and a patterned beam of radiation is projected through the liquid onto a target portion of the substrate using the projection system. Substrates can be held on first and second tables. The first and second tables are moved together so as to transit from a first state to a second state, the first state in which the liquid immersion is maintained between the projection system and one of the first and second tables, the second state in which the liquid immersion is maintained between the projection system and the other one of the first and second tables. During the transition, the liquid immersion is maintained just below the projection system. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110043781 | Projection optical device and exposure apparatus - A projection optical device includes a projection optical system which projects an image of a pattern, a support member attached to the projection optical system, and a plurality of coupling members connected to the support member. The coupling members suspend and support the projection optical system through the support member from an upper direction of the support member. The projection optical device can include a frame to which one end of each of the coupling members is attached, such that the projection optical system hangs from the frame via the support member and the coupling members. A projection optical device also can include a liquid supply which supplies a temperature-controlled liquid to a side surface of a projection optical system utilizing gravity to cause the temperature-controlled liquid to flow along the side surface of the projection optical system. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20120008111 | Exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method - A support structure of a lithographic projection apparatus is configured to hold a patterning device, the patterning device being configured to pattern a beam of radiation according to a desired pattern. A substrate table is configured to hold a substrate. A projection system is configured to project the patterned beam onto a target portion of the substrate. A liquid supply system includes a container at least partly defining a space between the projection system and the substrate, the container having a selectively openable and closeable aperture therein, the aperture having an area smaller than an area of the substrate, the patterned beam capable of being projected through liquid in the space and the aperture onto the substrate. A closure is configured to selectively close and open the aperture, and the closure is separable from the remainder of the apparatus. | 01-12-2012 |
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| 20090268177 | Exposing method, exposure apparatus, and device fabricating method - An exposing method that forms a pattern of a reticle on a wafer is provided. In the method, part of the pattern of the reticle in an illumination area, which is illuminated by illumination light from an illumination optical system, is illuminated, and while scanning the illumination area with respect to the reticle in the +Y direction (or the −Y direction) by pivoting a deflection mirror, the reticle is moved in the corresponding −Y direction (or the +Y direction) and the wafer is moved in a direction that corresponds to the movement direction of the reticle. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20110241484 | Motor device, method of manufacturing motor device, and robot device - A motor device comprises a transmission substrate formed with a transmission portion that is wound around at least part of the outer periphery of a rotator; and a driving substrate that has a driving portion which moves the transmission portion by a certain distance in a state in which a rotational force is transmitted between the rotator and the transmission portion returns the transmission portion to a predetermined position in a state in which the rotation force transmission state is released, and is connected to the transmission substrate so that the driving force due to the driving portion acts on the transmission portion. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110241485 | Motor device, method of manufacturing motor device, and robot device - A motor device includes a base portion; a transmission portion that is formed with the base portion as one member and is wound around at least a part of an outer periphery of a rotator; and a driving portion which is supported by the base portion, moves the transmission portion by a certain distance in a state in which a rotational force is transmitted between the rotator and the transmission portion, and returns the transmission portion to a predetermined position in a state in which the rotation force transmission state is released. | 10-06-2011 |
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| 20090003857 | RECORDING MATERIAL DETERMINATION APPARATUS ANDIMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A recording material determination apparatus includes a first detection unit configured to detect a characteristic corresponding to a surface condition of a recording material based on a captured image of a surface of the recording material, a second detection unit configured to detect a characteristic corresponding to a grammage of the recording material based on an ultrasonic wave detected via the recording material by irradiating the recording material with an ultrasonic wave, and a conveyance unit configured to convey the recording material. The first detection unit and the second detection unit are located opposite each other with respect to the conveyance unit. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20100310264 | RECORDING-MEDIUM IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An effective image area can be properly corrected in accordance with the quantity of light from an irradiation unit by selecting, as the effective image area, pixels having light quantities more than or equal to a threshold value that allows accurate acquisition of a surface image of a recording medium, on the basis of a light quantity distribution of the light from the irradiation unit. This reduces the influence of mounting accuracy of the irradiation unit, and allows the recording medium to be identified accurately. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20120002988 | RECORDING MATERIAL DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A recording material determination apparatus includes a first detection unit configured to detect a characteristic corresponding to a surface condition of a recording material based on a captured image of a surface of the recording material, a second detection unit configured to detect a characteristic corresponding to a grammage of the recording material based on an ultrasonic wave detected via the recording material by irradiating the recording material with an ultrasonic wave, and a conveyance unit configured to convey the recording material. The first detection unit and the second detection unit are located opposite each other with respect to the conveyance unit. | 01-05-2012 |
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| 20100259772 | RECORDING SHEET SURFACE DETECTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus for detecting surface conditions of a recording sheet on which an image is formed, includes a light source configured to emit a first light beam and a second light beam, an image capture device configured to capture a first image of a surface of the recording sheet illuminated with the first light beam and a second image of the surface of the recording sheet illuminated with the second light beam. A first straight line including a ray in a center of the first light beam and a second straight line including a ray in a center of the second light beam intersect with each other, when each straight line is projected onto the surface of the recording sheet, and a detection device configured to detect information about the unevenness on the surface of the recording sheet based on the first image and the second image. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100309488 | RECORDING MEDIUM IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a recording medium imaging device capable of properly selecting pixels used for determining the kind of the recording medium from the captured surface image to remove pixels from which the surface property of the recording medium cannot be properly determined because the pixels extremely high in light quantity are affected by some sort of dirt or scratches in determining the kind of a recording medium. This allows the determination of kind of the recording medium based on the normally captured surface image to reduce the decrease in accuracy in determining the kind of the recording medium. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110142461 | ULTRASONIC WAVE CONTROL DEVICE AND RECORDING MATERIAL DETERMINING DEVICE - In a device for detecting a basis weight of a recording material, an initial measurement is performed by using ultrasonic waves that have passed through the recording material, and the recording material is roughly classified first. By changing the number of pulses of the driving signal in accordance with a result of the initial measurement, the basis weight of the recording material can be detected by using ultrasonic waves suitable for the recording material, so that the detection accuracy of the basis weight of the recording material can be increased. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110217052 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING FUNCTION OF OBTAINING COLOR INFORMATION OF PATCH - An image forming apparatus uses the difference in time taken for each patch to reach a color sensor, which occurs upon reversing the conveyance direction of a printing material. Due to this difference in time, the temperature of the printing material in detection by the color sensor differs among the respective patches. The error of a colorimetric value due to thermochromism is reduced by placing a patch with a colorimetric value which has a low temperature dependence so as to be detected earlier, and a patch with a colorimetric value which has a high temperature dependence so as to be detected later. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20120020685 | RECORDING MATERIAL DETERMINATION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A recording material determination device includes an ultrasonic wave transmission unit configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave to a recording material based on a driving signal, an ultrasonic wave receiving unit configured to receive the ultrasonic wave, a light exposure unit configured to expose the recording material to light, a light receiving unit configured to receive light, an amplification unit configured to amplify an ultrasonic wave received by the ultrasonic wave receiving unit to a first output value, and after the amplification unit amplifies the ultrasonic wave received by the ultrasonic wave receiving unit to the first output value, a control unit performs control so as to obtain the second output value by the light exposure unit and the light receiving unit during a period of time after the amplification of the ultrasonic wave is stopped and before the next ultrasonic wave comes to be transmittable. | 01-26-2012 |
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| 20100118098 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus comprises a transfer unit having a transfer surface for holding a recording medium and transferring the recording medium held on the transfer surface, a recording head opposed to the transfer unit and recording images on the recording medium transferred by the transfer unit, a suction-force changing unit drawing the recording medium, a support member providing at substantially the same height as the transfer surface of the transfer unit and supporting the suction-force changing unit, and a suction unit drawing the recording medium to a surface of the support member, via the suction-force changing unit. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100302303 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CALCULATING RECORD POSITION SHIFTS, AND METHOD OF RECORDING MEASURED PATTERNS - An image recording apparatus records a plurality of measuring patterns on a recording medium. Each measuring pattern is constituted by dots spaced from one another on the recording medium, or by dots contacting one another, forming lines spaced from one another on the recording medium. Further, the measuring patterns have gravity centers are almost identical in position on the recording medium. Hence, the relative record shifts of the measuring patterns recorded by recording element arrays, respectively, can be decreased. | 12-02-2010 |
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| 20090032455 | Potting Material, Hollow-Fiber Module, and Process for Producing the Same - An object of the present invention is to provide a potting agent that enables the reduction of crawling and ensures sufficient penetration between the porous hollow fibers in stationary potting. The potting agent of the present invention is a potting agent for fixing an end portion of a porous hollow fiber group composed of a plurality of porous hollow fibers, and contains a resin material and a filler. The content of the filler is equal to or less than the content of the filler at a rising point of a variation curve of viscosity of the potting agent to filler content. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090301959 | Hollow Fibers, A Method of Manufacturing a Hollow Fiber Bundle, A Cylindrical Module of Hollow Fiber Membrane, and an Immersion Type Module of Hollow Fiber Membrane - The object of the invention is to provide: a hollow fiber bundle, a method of manufacturing the hollow fiber bundle, a cylindrical module of hollow fiber membrane, and an immersion type module of hollow fiber membrane wherein the hollow fibers are easy to apply scrubbing while maintaining specified intervals among the hollow fibers. A hollow fiber bundle bundling porous hollow fibers, including; hollow fibers | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100224548 | Screen-Like Object Made of Hollow Fibers, a Method of Manufacturing a Hollow Fiber Bundle, a Cylindrical Module of Hollow Fiber Membrane, and an Immersion Type Module of Hollow Fiber Membrane - The object of the invention is to provide: a screen-like object made of hollow fibers, a method of manufacturing a hollow fiber bundle, a cylindrical module of hollow fiber membrane, and an immersion type module of hollow fiber membrane wherein the hollow fibers are easy to bundle while keeping fiber-to-fiber intervals. The screen-like object made of hollow fibers includes: porous hollow fibers | 09-09-2010 |
