Abstract: A charged particle beam device 1 includes analysis means performed by a controller when a sample holder HL holding a sample SAM is installed on a stage 23. The analysis means includes a step (a) of raising a degree of vacuum of each of an observation chamber 10 and a preprocessing chamber 20 by opening a gate valve VL5, opening a valve VL1, closing a valve VL2, and driving a vacuum pump 40, a step (b) of closing the gate valve VL5 and opening the valve VL2 after the step (a), and a step (c) of processing the sample SAM by radiating an ion beam from an ion source 22 to the sample SAM while performing vacuum exhaust of the preprocessing chamber 20 by the vacuum pump 40 after the step (b). The analysis means can process the sample SAM quickly after performing the vacuum exhaust of the preprocessing chamber 20 in a short time.

Abstract: A clothes treating apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a hanger on which clothes are hung and a blower unit having an air vent for blowing wind toward the clothes hung on the hanger. The hanger includes a supporter connected to the air vent of the blower unit, wherein a wind receiving space is formed inside the supporter, and a shoulder supporter extending from the supporter and forming a wind discharging space connected to the wind receiving space, wherein shoulder portions of the clothes are hung on the shoulder supporter. The wind discharging space includes a body wind path formed to blow wind toward a body portion of the clothes, and sleeve wind paths formed to blow wind toward sleeves of the clothes and diverging at an entrance of the body wind path. The body wind path includes an enlarged wind path portion which is formed at an exit of the body wind path and of which a wind path is enlarged downstream.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus continuously applies a plurality of processes to input data to generate output data. In the data processing apparatus, a first process, which is one of the plurality of processes, generates a data file including first processed data obtained by performing first processing on data stored in a first storage area, and subsequent process information indicating a second process subsequent to the first process, and the second process indicated by the subsequent process information in the data file performs at least second processing on the first processed data to generate second processed data.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a heat pump type dryer for reducing the manufacturing cost thereof and maintaining an appropriate quantity of radiation by auxiliary heat exchanger. The clothes dryer D includes housing 1; drum portion 2 installed in the housing 1 and configured to accommodate clothes; a circulation ventilation path 3 configured to pass through the drum portion 2; a heat pump apparatus 5 having a compressor 52, a condenser 53, a throttling device 54, and an evaporator 51, connected to form a flow path through which refrigerant circulates; an auxiliary heat exchanger 55 installed outside the ventilation path, and connected in series to a flow path in the condenser 53 or in parallel to the condenser 53; and a cooling apparatus 6 configured to cool the auxiliary heat exchanger 55.

Abstract: A clothes treating apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a hanger on which clothes are hung and a blower unit having an air vent for blowing wind toward the clothes hung on the hanger. The hanger includes a supporter connected to the air vent of the blower unit, wherein a wind receiving space is formed inside the supporter, and a shoulder supporter extending from the supporter and forming a wind discharging space connected to the wind receiving space, wherein shoulder portions of the clothes are hung on the shoulder supporter. The wind discharging space includes a body wind path formed to blow wind toward a body portion of the clothes, and sleeve wind paths formed to blow wind toward sleeves of the clothes and diverging at an entrance of the body wind path. The body wind path includes an enlarged wind path portion which is formed at an exit of the body wind path and of which a wind path is enlarged downstream.

Abstract: Improvement in heat exchange efficiency can be promoted, a heat exchange can be efficiently performed, a space can be saved, and drying time can be shortened. A washing and drying machine includes a drum configured to accommodate clothes, a motor configured to drive the drum, a tub configured to accommodate the drum and store washing water, and a circulation flow path configured to circulate drying air into and out of the drum. A circulation duct constituting a part of the circulation flow path is connected to a converging portion configured to converge drying air. A dehumidifier is installed in one or more duct systems of the circulation duct. The washing and drying machine further includes a controller configured to control the dehumidifier and two duct cleaning pipes installed in branch ducts and configured to supply water to the dehumidifier.

Abstract: The clothes dryer of the present disclosure includes a circulation air flow path communicating with the drum, a condensed water storage chamber communicating with the circulation air flow path and a pump chamber communicating with the condensed water storage chamber. The communication path introduces air into at least one of the first circulation air flow path and the pump chamber to reduce the pressure of the pump chamber by introducing air into the pump chamber or to introduce air into the condensed water storage chamber through the first circulation air flow path. Accordingly, there is an effect of increasing the air volume of the fan device while preventing backflow and scattering of the condensed water caused by dehumidification in the clothes dryer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an electrode by forming an electrode mixture layer on a surface of a current collector using an electrode mixture composition containing an aqueous polyimide precursor solution composition and a specific crosslinking agent, the aqueous polyimide precursor solution composition being obtained by dissolving a specific polyamide acid in an aqueous solvent together with a specific imidazole, and subsequently performing heat treatment to remove the solvent and perform an imidization reaction of the polyamide acid. It is preferable that the imidazole is an imidazole selected from the group consisting of 1,2-dimethylimidazole, 2-ethyl-4-methylimidazole, 4-ethyl-2-methylimidazole, and 1-methyl-4-ethylimidazole.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a polyimide laminate, the method including the steps of applying a polyimide precursor solution onto a substrate and heating the polyimide precursor solution, to thereby form a polyimide film layer on the substrate. The substrate is any plate selected from a glass plate, a metal plate, and a ceramic plate. The heating step includes irradiation with far infrared rays using an infrared heater that generates a maximum radiant energy at an infrared wavelength of 3.5 to 6 ?m. The highest heating temperature is preferably 350 to 550° C. The time required to increase the temperature from 180 to 280° C. during a temperature-increasing process is preferably 2 minutes or longer.

Abstract: A polyimide film including a polyimide obtained by polymerizing a tetracarboxylic acid component and a diamine component. The tetracarboxylic acid component consists of one or more tetracarboxylic dianhydride (a1), in which at least one of the bonds linking the two cyclic anhydride structures contained in the molecule is a freely rotatable bond and a phthalic anhydride structure is not contained therein, and one or more tetracarboxylic dianhydride (a2) having an alicyclic structure, in which each of two cyclic anhydride structures shares at least one carbon-carbon bond with the alicyclic structure and a freely rotatable bond is not contained in the molecule; and the diamine component includes one or more diamine having a 9,9-diphenylfluorene structure in an amount of 5 to 50 mol %.

Abstract: The clothes dryer of the present disclosure includes a circulation air flow path communicating with the drum, a condensed water storage chamber communicating with the circulation air flow path and a pump chamber communicating with the condensed water storage chamber. The communication path introduces air into at least one of the first circulation air flow path and the pump chamber to reduce the pressure of the pump chamber by introducing air into the pump chamber or to introduce air into the condensed water storage chamber through the first circulation air flow path. Accordingly, there is an effect of increasing the air volume of the fan device while preventing backflow and scattering of the condensed water caused by dehumidification in the clothes dryer.

Abstract: Improvement in heat exchange efficiency can be promoted, a heat exchange can be efficiently performed, a space can be saved, and drying time can be shortened. A washing and drying machine includes a drum configured to accommodate clothes, a motor configured to drive the drum, a tub configured to accommodate the drum and store washing water, and a circulation flow path configured to circulate drying air into and out of the drum. A circulation duct constituting a part of the circulation flow path is connected to a converging portion configured to converge drying air. A dehumidifier is installed in one or more duct systems of the circulation duct. The washing and drying machine further includes a controller configured to control the dehumidifier and two duct cleaning pipes installed in branch ducts and configured to supply water to the dehumidifier.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a heat pump type dryer for reducing the manufacturing cost thereof and maintaining an appropriate quantity of radiation by auxiliary heat exchanger. The clothes dryer D includes housing 1; drum portion 2 installed in the housing 1 and configured to accommodate clothes; a circulation ventilation path 3 configured to pass through the drum portion 2; a heat pump apparatus 5 having a compressor 52, a condenser 53, a throttling device 54, and an evaporator 51, connected to form a flow path through which refrigerant circulates; an auxiliary heat exchanger 55 installed outside the ventilation path, and connected in series to a flow path in the condenser 53 or in parallel to the condenser 53; and a cooling apparatus 6 configured to cool the auxiliary heat exchanger 55.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an electrode by forming an electrode mixture layer on a surface of a current collector using an electrode mixture composition containing an aqueous polyimide precursor solution composition and a specific crosslinking agent, the aqueous polyimide precursor solution composition being obtained by dissolving a specific polyamide acid in an aqueous solvent together with a specific imidazole, and subsequently performing heat treatment to remove the solvent and perform an imidization reaction of the polyamide acid. It is preferable that the imidazole is an imidazole selected from the group consisting of 1,2-dimethylimidazole, 2-ethyl-4-methylimidazole, 4-ethyl-2-methylimidazole, and 1-methyl-4-ethylimidazole.

Abstract: An electrode is produced by forming an electrode layer on a surface of a current collector using an electrode composition containing a binder including a polyamide acid that is obtained from a specific aromatic tetracarboxylic acid compound and a diamine component containing a diamine having a carboxyl group, and subsequently performing heat treatment to remove a solvent and perform an imidization reaction of the polyamide acid. It is preferable that the electrode composition further contains a crosslinking agent having an epoxy group or an oxazoline group. It is also preferable that the electrode composition further contains a pyridine.

Abstract: A method for producing a polyimide film includes: (i) applying a polyamic acid solution composition, which includes at least one of the following solvents: N-methylformamide, N,N-dimethylpropionamide, N,N-dimethylisobutylamide and tetramethylurea, and a polyamic acid, to a substrate; and then (ii) imidizing the polyamic acid by subjecting the composition to heat treatment, to obtain the polyimide film.

Abstract: Provided is a clothes dryer including: a drum; an air circulation passage connected to the drum; a cooling device configured to cool and dehumidify air; a heating device configured to heat the air; an air blowing device configured to circulate air; a base plate configured to collect condensation water generated from the cooling device; a pump chamber accommodating a pump; a water circulation passage connecting the base plate to communicate with the pump chamber; a communication passage provided between the air circulation passage and the base plate and configured to guide the condensation water generated at the cooling device to the base plate; a first ventilation hole configured to provide a first air passage between the air circulation passage and the pump chamber; and a second ventilation hole configured to provide a second air passage between the air circulation passage and the base plate.

Abstract: An electrode is produced by forming an electrode layer on a surface of a current collector using an electrode composition containing a binder including a polyamide acid that is obtained from a specific aromatic tetracarboxylic acid compound and a diamine component containing a diamine having a carboxyl group, and subsequently performing heat treatment to remove a solvent and perform an imidization reaction of the polyamide acid. It is preferable that the electrode composition further contains a crosslinking agent having an epoxy group or an oxazoline group.

Abstract: Provided is a clothes dryer including: a drum; an air circulation passage connected to the drum; a cooling device configured to cool and dehumidify air; a heating device configured to heat the air; an air blowing device configured to circulate air; a base plate configured to collect condensation water generated from the cooling device; a pump chamber accommodating a pump; a water circulation passage connecting the base plate to communicate with the pump chamber; a communication passage provided between the air circulation passage and the base plate and configured to guide the condensation water generated at the cooling device to the base plate; a first ventilation hole configured to provide a first air passage between the air circulation passage and the pump chamber; and a second ventilation hole configured to provide a second air passage between the air circulation passage and the base plate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a urethane foam molded product that has high thermal conductivity with minimal change to its physical properties. A simple method for producing the same is also provided. The urethane foam molded product includes a base material formed of a polyurethane foam, and a thermal conductive filler mixed in the base material and oriented to form mutual connections. The thermal conductive filler is formed of composite particles that include thermal conductive particles formed of a nonmagnetic material, and magnetic particles adhered to the surfaces of the thermal conductive particles.