Abstract: There is provided an machineroom-less elevator which can reduce the pit depth in a bottom part of an elevator shaft, mostly perform maintenance work on an upper space of a cage, and reduce a top clearance. A pair of right and left cage-side sheaves are disposed in the upper space of the cage, and the rotational axes of the traction sheave and the cage-side sheaves are extended in the longitudinal direction. A sheave supporting beam to rotatably support cage-side sheaves is disposed in a space between and upper beam of the cage frame and a ceiling of the cage, and disposed below rotary shafts of the cage-side sheaves.

Abstract: In a powder supplying device which supplies powder to a powder receiving device, a powder container unit contains powder therein and is provided at a bottom of the powder container unit with a gas blowing part which blows gas to the inside of the powder container unit. A suction tube has a suction opening and attracts powder contained in the powder container unit from the suction opening. A powder transporting unit transports powder attracted by the suction tube, to the powder receiving device. The suction tube is arranged in a vicinity of a side wall of the powder container unit.

Abstract: There is provided a confocal endoscope system which is provided with an electronic endoscope having a confocal optical unit configured to emit illumination light toward an object and to obtain only light from a certain point of the object, and a processor to which the light obtained by the confocal optical unit is inputted. The processor is provided with an image processing unit that generates image data representing an image of the object based on the light transmitted from the confocal optical unit, and a measuring information superimposing unit that generates composite image data representing a composite image generated by superimposing measuring information for measuring the object on the image generated by the image processing unit. The measuring information superimposing unit determines a display condition of the measuring information on the composite image in accordance with an imaging area of the confocal optical unit.

Abstract: A powder transport device includes a powder storing unit having a powder storing part which stores powder, and a container unit having a container part in which the powder storing unit is accommodated. The powder storing unit comprises a motor part for operating the powder storing unit, an electrical wiring for transmitting an electric signal sent from the motor part or a driving current sent to the motor part, and a first connector for providing electrical conduction between the electrical wiring and an external wiring. The container unit comprises a second connector electrically connected to the external wiring, the second connector being engaged with the first connector so that the first connector provides electrical conduction between the electrical wiring and the external wiring.

Abstract: A particle supply apparatus is disclosed that includes a particle accommodating unit that accommodates particles, a gas spouting unit that is arranged at a bottom portion of the particle accommodating unit and is configured to spout gas toward the particles, and a conveying mechanism that applies suction to the particles accommodated in the particle accommodating unit and conveys the particles toward a supply destination.

Abstract: A particle supply apparatus is disclosed that includes a particle accommodating unit that accommodates particles, a gas spouting unit that is arranged at a bottom portion of the particle accommodating unit and is configured to spout gas toward the particles, a conveying mechanism that applies suction to the particles accommodated in the particle accommodating unit and conveys the particles toward a supply destination, and a gas discharge unit that discharges gas contained within the particle accommodating unit toward an exterior side of the particle accommodating unit.

Abstract: In an elevator according to the present invention, a driving apparatus 42, a traction sheave 41, and a counterweight-side rope hitching portion 46 are arranged above one rail 21L of the right and left cage-side guide rails, while a cage-side rope hitching portion 44 and a speed governor 47 are arranged above the other rail 21R of the right and left cage-side guide rails. Since a control panel 48 is arranged along a rear inner wall surface 34 of the machine room, a large operation space can be secured in a center part of the floor 31 of the machine room 30. Further, since a machine beam 53 can be extended at full length in the back and forth direction in the machine room 30, no additional building-side receiving beam is needed.

Abstract: A top emission organic EL display includes an array substrate including an insulating substrate, organic EL elements which are arranged on a main surface of the insulating substrate, and an outcoupling layer which extracts light components propagating in in-plane direction while causing multiple-beam interference from the organic EL element to make the light components travel in front of the organic EL element, and a sealing substrate facing and spaced apart from the organic EL elements. The display forms an enclosed space filled with an inert gas or evacuated between the sealing substrate and an element portion of the array substrate corresponding to the organic EL element. A distance between the element portion and the sealing substrate is 100 nm or longer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a discharging method for discharging solid matter out of a container in which the solid matter is stored. In this discharging method of solid matter, a discharging liquid is supplied into the container 2 and thereby generates a spiral flow to cause the liquid and the solid matter exhibiting the spiral flow to be discharged from a discharge port 20 arranged in the bottom of said container 2. The spiral flow of the liquid and the solid matter can be generated by allowing the discharging liquid to flow tangentially into the container 2 specifically at a location in the vicinity of the bottom of said container 2.

Abstract: This invention provides a luminescent organic polymer metal complex represented by polyQ.M.Kn-1 (1) which is obtained by the reaction of a polymer ligand (polyQ) with an 8-hydroxyquinoline derivative introduced to its side chain through a spacer group, an 8-hydroxyquinoline derivative ligand (K) and a divalent to tetravalent metal ion (Mn+) wherein the 8-hydroxyquinoline derivative ligand (K) has a bulky substituent. This invention also provides a luminescent organic polymer metal complex composition comprising said luminescent organic polymer metal complex and additionally a low-molecular-weight ligand and a process for producing the same.

Abstract: A color image of a circuit board is divided into respective color regions. Plural representative colors are set, and angle indices and distance indices are calculated for each pixel color in the color image in a predetermined color space. The angle indices for a particular pixel color represent angles between an individual color vector representing the particular pixel color and plural representative color vectors of the plural representative colors. The distance indices for a particular pixel color represent distances between the particular pixel color and the plural representative colors. Composite distance indices are then calculated for each pixel color in the color image, based on the distance indices and the angle indices. Each pixel in the color image is classified into plural representative color regions associated with the plural representative colors according to the composite distance indices, thereby dividing the image region of the color image into the plural representative color regions.

Abstract: In a motor, a shaft passes through a magnet of a rotor and is fixed to the magnet by way of a rotor sleeve formed by resin-molding between the magnet and the shaft. A resin-molded boss is fixed to a front end of a stator, has a center hole, and defines an inner surface continuous from the center hole and beveled so as to obliquely face a front end of the rotor sleeve. A plurality of bearing balls are rotatably disposed between the front end of the rotor sleeve and the beveled inner surface of the boss, thereby constituting a ball bearing which rotatably supports the shaft. Thus, the shaft is prevented from bowing, whereby the motor achieves a high rotational accuracy of the shaft without an additional bearing attached separately.

Abstract: An elevator comprises a cage (2) suspended in an elevator shaft (5) and provided with cage-side sheaves (2a, 2b); a counterweight (3) suspended in the elevator shaft (5) and provided with a counterweight-side sheave (3a); a diverting sheave (11) disposed at a position above the counterweight (3) in an upper part of the elevator shaft (5); first and second upper sheaves (9, 12) disposed in an upper part of the elevator shaft (5); and a main rope (4) wound around the first and the second upper sheaves (9, 12), and having a first part wound around the cage-side sheaves (2a, 2b) and having a first end fastened to a fixed structure in an upper part of the elevator shaft (5), and a second part passed successively via the counterweight-side sheave (3a) of the counterweight (3) and the diverting sheave (11) and having a second end fastened to the counterweight (3).

Abstract: The present invention provides a technique to prevent increase in defect detection processing volume due to the shape of an object subject to the defect detection. An image of an object under inspection with a plurality of color regions is divided into areas by area segmentation according to colors. From the result of the segmentation, an inspection image representing a shape of a specific region among the plurality of color regions is obtained. The inspection image and a comparison image which is comparable at least in part with the inspection image are then compared to detect defects relating to the specific region.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technique to identify layout of surface regions of an object by image area segmentation. A plurality of images is acquired by imaging an object under a plurality of mutually different illumination conditions. By performing area segmentation on this plurality of images, the layouts of the plurality of image areas which is different from the layout of the object surface regions is obtained. Then, the layout of the surface regions on the object is identified based on the layouts of the plurality of image areas.

Abstract: A pattern-element extractor (51), one of functions implemented by a computer, extracts a plurality of pattern elements from a reference image, a region of which is displayed on a display (45). An input part (46) accepts an operator's selection of one out of the plurality of pattern elements as a reference pattern element, and a distinguishability checker (52) checks whether the selected pattern element is distinguishable from the other pattern elements and usable as the reference pattern element for pattern matching. A result of the check is notified to the operator, and an appropriate one out of the pattern elements in the reference image can be selected as the reference pattern element, by referring to the result of the check made by the distinguishability checker (52). Thus, misrecognition of the reference pattern element used for detecting a position of a target image relative to the reference image in pattern matching is prevented.

Abstract: A board (9) is placed on a stage part (20) so that the back surface of the board is opposed to the stage part (20). The stage part cuts off light entering a hole penetrating the board (9) from a side of its back surface which is a reverse surface with respect to its pattern formed surface and has a reflection property which is different from that of the pattern formed surface with respect to an illumination light, and the illumination light is emitted from a light source part (31) onto the pattern formed surface (9a).

Abstract: In a reference binary image representing a pattern including wires formed on a substrate, an erosion is performed on a specific area having the same pixel value as a pixel value corresponding to a wire area to acquire an eroded image and a dilation is performed on the specific area which remains in the eroded image to almost the same degree as the erosion to acquire an eroded and dilated image. Subsequently, a differential image between the eroded and dilated image and the reference binary image is generated as a wire image representing a wire area. It is thereby possible to easily extract a wire area which is a fine pattern area. By setting respective different defect detection sensitivities for the wire area and the other area on the basis of the wire image and detecting a defect in an inspection image in accordance with the defect detection sensitivities, it is possible to appropriately detect a defect in a pattern on a substrate.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate having, on a major surface thereof, a display area including a plurality of pixels for displaying an image, and a stacked layer body that is formed by stacking a first thin film, which is disposed to cover the display area, a second thin film, which partly covers the first thin film, and a third thin film, which covers the second thin film and is formed with a larger pattern than the first thin film. The third thin film contacts a peripheral part of the first thin film and covers the first thin film.

Abstract: A support hole, screw holes, and eleven orientating holes are formed in a plate. The orientating holes are each positioned asymmetric to any other thereof about a center of the plate.