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20100213291 | TUBE-END DEVICE FOR FIRE EXTINGUISHMENT - A tube-end device for fire extinguishment jets and sprays pressurized and fed water, seawater, or aqueous fire-extinguishing agent from a tube end. The tube-end device for fire extinguishment is provided with: an induction electrode unit disposed in an emission space side of a nozzle unit positioned inside the tube end; a water-side electrode unit disposed at a position of the interior of a tube main body in contact with fire-extinguishing water; a voltage applying device which applies an external electric field, which is generated by applying a voltage between the induction electrode unit and the water-side electrode unit, to the water, seawater, or fire-extinguishing agent in the process of jetting from the nozzle unit, electrically charges jetted particles, and emit the particles; and a battery which supplies power to the voltage applying device. | 08-26-2010 |
20100304622 | CONTACT DEVICE - A contact device that has decreased contact pressure against a conductor caused by elastic repulsion force of a spring contact, to thereby enable suppressing friction and reducing electrical-resistance. The contact device includes first and second conductors arranged on a same axis and moved in their axis direction to fit to each other, a spring contact fitted to an installation groove of the second conductor, and a conductive contact piece arranged between a fitting face of the first conductors and the spring contact, so that electric current flows in a pair of conductors through the conductive spring contact and the conductive contact piece. The spring contact has an elliptical cross section formed of a bare wire being spirally wound with tilting against the winding axis thereof, and the contact piece is divided into a plurality of segments in a direction of the winding axis of the spring contact, and configured to line-contact or face-contact the other of the conductors. | 12-02-2010 |
20110186311 | FIRE PREVENTION EQUIPMENT AND SPRAYING METHOD - Fire-extinguishing agent supplying equipment pressurizes a water-based fire-extinguishing agent and supplies the agent via a pipe; and the water-based fire-extinguishing agent is pressurized and supplied via the pipe to an electrification spray head installed in a protection area A, and the jetted particles of the fire-extinguishing agent are electrified and sprayed from the electrification spray head. A pulsed or alternating electrification voltage is applied to the electrification spray head from a voltage application unit | 08-04-2011 |
20110186646 | ATOMIZATION COOLING EQUIPMENT AND ATOMIZING METHOD - Cooling water is pressurized and supplied via a pipe to an electrified atomization head installed in an atomization cooling area A, the jetted particles of the cooling water from the electrified atomization head are electrified and atomized. An electrification voltage is applied from a voltage application unit to the electrified atomization head, and the external electric field generated by applying a voltage between a water-side electrode unit and an induction electrode unit is applied to the cooling water in a jetting process so as to electrify the atomization water and facilitate adsorption to people. | 08-04-2011 |
20120000677 | FIRE PREVENTION EQUIPMENT - A wide protection range can be ensured by extending the flying distance of fire-extinguishing agent particles electrified and sprayed from a head. A water-based fire-extinguishing agent is pressurized and supplied to an electrification spray head | 01-05-2012 |
20120101385 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND SOUND SPEED CORRECTION METHOD - In order to provide an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and a sound speed correction method capable of performing sound speed correction without affecting real-time efficiency, the present invention is characterized in that a reference sound speed image signal is acquired by setting a reference sound speed and a different sound speed image signal is acquired by setting a different sound speed from the reference sound speed and that sound speed correction information is acquired by correcting reference sound speed information based on the reference sound speed image signal using different items of sound speed information based on the different sound speed image signal. | 04-26-2012 |
20130119169 | ELECTRIFICATION SPRAY HEAD - A wide protection range can be ensured by extending the flying distance of fire-extinguishing agent particles electrified and sprayed from a head. A water-based fire-extinguishing agent is pressurized and supplied to an electrification spray head | 05-16-2013 |
20130180737 | FIRE PREVENTION EQUIPMENT AND SPRAYING METHOD - Fire-extinguishing agent supplying equipment pressurizes a water-based fire-extinguishing agent and supplies the agent via a pipe; and the water-based fire-extinguishing agent is pressurized and supplied via the pipe to an electrification spray head installed in a protection area A, and the jetted particles of the fire-extinguishing agent are electrified and sprayed from the electrification spray head. A pulsed or alternating electrification voltage is applied to the electrification spray head from a voltage application unit | 07-18-2013 |
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20090320754 | INTEGRATED GAS PANEL APPARATUS - Provided is an integrated gas panel apparatus which has excellent responsiveness, stabilizes gas concentration, and furthermore, can keep a conventional panel shape as it is. A panel body ( | 12-31-2009 |
20110126930 | FLUID DEVICE - In a fluid device composed of vertical and horizontal fluid lines, for a purpose of improving a compact size and of assuring ease of assembly, a plurality of vertical fluid lines are arranged in parallel to each other, and in the fluid device where, between the adjoining vertical fluid lines, a plurality of horizontal fluid lines for connecting them are arranged in parallel, one of the horizontal fluid lines connects pipes by using a flange joint to be fastened with a coupling ring, and the other one connects pipes by using joint pipes. | 06-02-2011 |
20110127770 | COUPLING RING - A coupling ring is provided, including a series of unit members with adjacent unit members rotatably coupled to each other, and a fastener coupling unit members on both ends to each other. A concave groove provided to extend circumferentially is externally fitted into an outer circumference of each of two opposing flanges. The unit members on the both ends are coupled to each other by the fastener to be turned into an annular state. The fastener is fastened to thereby press an inclined surface. The flanges are pressure-bonded to each other by forces generated during pressing. A stopper member is provided to restrict a separation angle between the unit member on one end and an adjacent unit member to fall within a certain angle in an open state in which the unit members on the both ends are not coupled to each other provided on at least one of the unit members. | 06-02-2011 |
20110314838 | GAS SUPPLY DEVICE - The present invention relates to a gas supply device having a compact configuration that enables prevention of vaporized gas by requisite minimum heating means from being liquefied again and an installation area to be considerably reduced. The gas supply device is provided with: a tank configured to retain material liquid; and a mass flow controller that is connected to an inside of the tank through a first valve unit, and controls a flow rate of gas resulting from vaporizing the material liquid, in which inside an outer wall of the tank, an internal flow path is formed, and the internal flow path is provided with a generated gas lead-out line provided with: a first valve flow-in flow path connecting the inside of the tank and a first inlet port; and a first valve flow-out flow path connecting a first outlet port and an introduction port of the mass flow controller . | 12-29-2011 |
20120006425 | FLUID SYSTEM - In order to simplify a configuration of a fluid system without increasing the number of parts of an intermediate support body while using a common intermediate support body, the fluid system includes a fluid circuit device configured by connecting a plurality of fluid units for controlling or measuring a state of fluid using pipes and pipe joints and a holding mechanism for holding the fluid circuit device, wherein the holding mechanism includes a base member and the intermediate support body interposed between the fluid circuit device and the base member so as to couple the fluid circuit device and the base member, and wherein one end of the intermediate support body is attached to a respective pipe joint and the other end thereof is attached to the base member so that each of the pipe joints is connected to the base member. | 01-12-2012 |
20120042838 | LIQUID SOURCE VAPORIZER - The present invention is one that is intended to prevent bubbles from being recombined to suppress the bubbles from being enlarged, and also homogenize a temperature distribution of a stored liquid source, and provided with: a liquid source container; a first heater that is provided on a side wall of the liquid source container and intended to heat the stored liquid source to a predetermined temperature; a second heater that is provided in an inside central part of the liquid source container and intended to heat the stored liquid source to the predetermined temperature; a plurality of bubble generators that are immersed into the stored liquid source, provided between the second heater and the side wall, and release carrier gas into the liquid source to perform bubbling; and a gas supply pipe that supplies the carrier gas to the bubble generators. | 02-23-2012 |
20120227848 | INTEGRATED GAS PANEL APPARATUS - Provided is an integrated gas panel apparatus which has excellent responsiveness, stabilizes gas concentration, and furthermore, can keep a conventional panel shape as it is. A panel body comprises at least a main flow channel block body for forming a main flow channel, and a branch flow channel block body for forming a branch flow channel. The branch flow channel block bodies are arranged on the both right and left sides to face each other by having the main flow channel block body at the center. | 09-13-2012 |
20140319705 | VAPOR CONCENTRATION CONTROL SYSTEM, VAPOR CONCENTRATION CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL PROGRAM - The present claimed invention includes a first flow channel where a carrier gas or a mixed gas flows, a switch valve that is for flowing the mixed gas or the carrier gas to the first flow channel selectively, a fluid adjusting valve that adjusts a concentration of a gas flowing in the first flow channel, and a control part that conducts a feedback control on an opening degree of the fluid adjusting valve, and is characterized such that the control part initiates the feedback control by the use of an opening degree of the fluid adjusting valve at a time just before the gas flowing in the first flow channel is switched from the mixed gas to the carrier gas as an initial opening degree of the fluid adjusting valve at a time when the gas flowing in the first flow channel is again switched to the mixed gas afterward. | 10-30-2014 |
20150300545 | FLUID DEVICE - In a fluid device composed of vertical and horizontal fluid lines, for a purpose of improving a compact size and of assuring ease of assembly, a plurality of vertical fluid lines are arranged in parallel to each other, and in the fluid device where, between the adjoining vertical fluid lines, a plurality of horizontal fluid lines for connecting them are arranged in parallel, one of the horizontal fluid lines connects pipes by using a flange joint to be fastened with a coupling ring, and the other one connects pipes by using joint pipes. | 10-22-2015 |
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20080228076 | Ultrasonic Imaging Device - This invention provides an ultrasonic imaging system that implements imaging by distinguishing sharply and definitely the echo components generated by scattering in a microbubble contrast medium, from the tissue harmonic components generated by nonlinear propagation of a transmitted pulse. This ultrasonic imaging system, constructed to transmit/receive ultrasonic pulses to/from a living body and form a contrast image of the inside of the living body by using the contrast-imaging microbubbles, repeats the transmitting/receiving operations four times in all, under the same transmitting/receiving focus conditions at different phase angles [(a)=0°, (b)=120°, (c)=−120°, (d)=180°] of the carrier of a transmitted pulse wave including a common envelope signal, sums up three time-series receive echo signals associated with (a), (b), (c), forms the contrast image, sums up two time-series receive echo signals associated with (a), (d), forms an image of the living body having a nonlinear pulse propagation property, and makes a superimposed display of the two kinds of images. | 09-18-2008 |
20090306505 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - Ultrasonic diagnostic equipment which displays a high contrast ultrasonic image enhancing the outline structure of an inspection object. More specifically, the motion vector of an object occurring between images used for addition is measured using a captured ultrasonic image, deformation processing is performed on accumulated addition image based on the measurement, and then addition processing is performed by multiplying the acquired image and the accumulated addition image by weighting coefficients. | 12-10-2009 |
20130144172 | ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS DEVICE - Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnosis device for creating an ultrasound image with a high contrast-to-tissue ratio. Said device sends a transmission pulse to the subject, uses an ultrasound probe to receive echoes reflected from an ultrasound contrast agent injected into the subject, and forms an image. The transmission pulse is sent such that nonlinear interactions between the constituent frequency components of said transmission pulse, as a result of the acoustic nonlinearity of the subject, do not produce sum and difference components in the frequency sensitivity range of the ultrasonic probe as the transmission pulse propagates across the subject. | 06-06-2013 |
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20080285713 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS - An EUV exposure apparatus is configured to maintain the reflective index of the optical element as high as possible and to minimize the maintenance frequency of the optical element by restraining attachments of released gas particles by degasifying to the optical element. An exposure apparatus is configured to expose a pattern of an original on a substrate by using extreme ultraviolet light. The exposure apparatus includes an optical element configured to receive the extreme ultraviolet light, a barrel configured to support the optical element, a chamber configured to store the barrel, and a partition wall configured outside and around an optical path of the extreme ultraviolet light in the barrel. | 11-20-2008 |
20090128795 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS - An exposure apparatus is configured to expose a pattern formed on an original onto a substrate using extreme ultraviolet light. The exposure apparatus includes a stage configured to move at the time of exposure, an electrostatic chuck which is provided on the stage and is configured to hold the original, an electrode which is provided outside the electrostatic chuck on the stage via an insulator, and an electric field forming member which is provided so that an absolute value of an electric potential difference with respect to the electrode is greater than an absolute value of an electric potential difference with respect to the original at a position facing the electrode. The particle adherence to the original can be effectively avoided. | 05-21-2009 |
20090207391 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An exposure apparatus | 08-20-2009 |
20090237638 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An exposure apparatus for exposing a substrate through liquid includes a stage for holding and moving the substrate. The stage includes a holding section for holding the substrate and a supporting section disposed around the holding section. The supporting section includes a recovery port including a gap between the substrate held by the holding section and the supporting section, the recovery port for recovering the liquid, a space for storing the liquid recovered through the recovery port, a liquid recovery mechanism for draining the liquid that has collected in a lower part of the space, and a sloshing reduction member disposed in the space, the sloshing reduction member for reducing sloshing of the liquid. | 09-24-2009 |
20120086149 | IMPRINT APPARATUS AND ARTICLE MANUFACTURING METHOD - The imprint apparatus of the present invention molds an imprint material on a substrate using a mold and cures the imprint material to form a pattern on the substrate. The apparatus includes a holder configured to attract the mold to hold the mold; and a pressure reduction device configured to reduce a back pressure of the mold held by the holder, wherein the apparatus is configured to reduce the back pressure by the pressure reduction device in parallel with release of the mold from the imprint material. | 04-12-2012 |
20120170007 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A DEVICE - The present invention provides an exposure apparatus including a projection optical system, and configured to expose a substrate to light via the projection optical system and a liquid, the apparatus including a plurality of recovery ports configured to recover the liquid supplied between the projection optical system and the substrate, a chamber connected to the plurality of recovery ports, and a pump configured to attract the liquid via the plurality of recovery ports and the chamber, wherein the plurality of recovery ports are discretely arranged between vertices on each side of a polygon and at each of vertices of the polygon, and a pressure difference between the pump and each of the recovery ports positioned at the vertices among the plurality of recovery ports is less than a pressure difference between the pump and each of the recovery ports positioned between the vertices among the plurality of recovery ports. | 07-05-2012 |
20120257180 | METHOD OF CLEANING PIPE OF IMMERSION EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DEVICE - A method of cleaning a supply pipe of an immersion exposure apparatus includes a cycle including a step of increasing a flow rate of a cleaning liquid via a supply pipe, which supplies a liquid to a gap between a substrate and a final surface of a projection optical system, and a step of decreasing the flow rate, wherein the cycle is executed a plurality of times after one of completion of one of setting and maintenance of the immersion exposure apparatus and completion of exposure of at least one substrate, and before exposure of a first shot region on a new substrate using the immersion exposure apparatus. | 10-11-2012 |
20130093113 | IMPRINT APPARATUS AND ARTICLE MANUFACTURING METHOD USING SAME - An imprint apparatus transfers a pattern formed on a mold to a resin on a substrate. The imprint apparatus includes a shape correction mechanism configured to apply a force to the mold to thereby deform a pattern region formed on the mold; a heating mechanism configured to heat a substrate-side pattern region formed on the substrate to thereby deform the substrate-side pattern region; and a control unit configured to obtain information regarding a difference between shapes of the pattern region formed on the mold and the substrate-side pattern region and control the shape correction mechanism and the wafer heating mechanism so as to reduce the difference between the shapes of the pattern region formed on the mold and the substrate-side pattern region based on the obtained information. | 04-18-2013 |
20150108674 | IMPRINT APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ARTICLE - The present invention provides an imprint apparatus which performs an imprint process of forming a pattern on a substrate by using a mold, the apparatus comprising a heating unit configured to heat a region to be imprinted on the substrate, thereby deforming the region, and a processing unit configured to determine, as a region to be imprinted first, one region out of a first region and second region to be imprinted, and determine the other region as a region to be imprinted subsequently, wherein an influence on the other region in a case where the heating unit deforms the one region is smaller than an influence on the one region in a case where the heating unit deforms the other region. | 04-23-2015 |
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20110151135 | OPTICAL THIN-FILM DEPOSITION DEVICE AND OPTICAL THIN-FILM FABRICATION METHOD - An optical thin-film vapor deposition apparatus and method are capable of producing an optical thin-film by vapor depositing a vapor deposition substance onto substrates ( | 06-23-2011 |
20110262656 | OPTICAL THIN-FILM VAPOR DEPOSITION APPARATUS AND OPTICAL THIN-FILM PRODUCTION METHOD - A method of vapor depositing a vapor deposition substance onto substrates within a vacuum vessel includes holding the substrates with a dome shaped holder disposed within the vacuum vessel, rotating the dome shaped holder, vapor depositing a substance from a vapor deposition source disposed oppositely to the substrates, supplying ions from an ion source to the substrates, and supplying neutralizing electrons from a neutralizer to the substrates. | 10-27-2011 |
20130074767 | THIN FILM FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a thin film forming apparatus for reducing operation time and cost by forming a film only on a specific portion on substrates. A substrate holding mechanism provided in the apparatus includes: substrate holding members holding substrates in a manner that a part of a non-film forming portion of a substrate overlaps the other substrate and a film forming portion is exposed, a support member supporting the substrate holding members, and a rotation member which rotates the support member. The substrate holding members include: holding surfaces holding the substrates and disposed between a film forming source and the substrates, step portions formed between the holding surfaces in a manner that ends of the substrates respectively contact with the step portions, and opening portions formed on the holding surfaces of the portion corresponding to the film forming portion when the ends of the substrates contact with the step portions. | 03-28-2013 |
20140199493 | FILM FORMATION METHOD AND FILM FORMATION APPARATUS - Provided is a film formation apparatus with which an anti-fouling film having high usability and antiwear performance may be formed efficiently. According to a film formation apparatus ( | 07-17-2014 |
20150284842 | THIN FILM FORMATION APPARATUS, SPUTTERING CATHODE, AND METHOD OF FORMING THIN FILM - Provided are a thin film formation apparatus, a sputtering cathode, and a method of forming thin film, capable of forming a multilayer optical film at a high film deposition rate on a large-sized substrate. The thin film formation apparatus forms a thin film of a metal compound on a substrate in a vacuum chamber by sputtering. The vacuum chamber is provided in its inside with targets composed of metal or a conductive metal compound, and an active species source for generating an active species of a reactive gas. The active species source is provided with gas sources for supplying the reactive gas, and an energy source for supplying energy into the vacuum chamber to excite the reactive gas to a plasma state. The energy source is provided between itself and the vacuum chamber with a dielectric window for supplying the energy into the vacuum chamber. | 10-08-2015 |