Abstract: An application apparatus has: a supply device which supplies a liquid in which a treatment agent having a prescribed function is dissolved; an application device which applies the liquid supplied from the supply device, onto a medium; and a condensing device which condenses the liquid supplied to the application device from the supply device during a period until the liquid is applied to the medium.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyance drum which has a round cylindrical shape including an outer circumferential surface having a medium holding section, and rotates in a prescribed direction while holding a medium in tight contact on the medium holding section so as to convey the medium in a circumferential direction; a pressing device which presses the medium against the medium holding section so as to establish tight contact between the medium and the medium holding section, when causing the medium to make tight contact with the medium holding section; a holding force generating device which generates a holding force that holds the medium on the medium holding section; and a liquid ejection head which ejects a liquid onto the medium held on the medium holding section, wherein: the conveyance drum has a level difference section which is provided on at least one side, in an axial direction of the conveyance drum, with respect to a central portion in the axial direction of the conveyance drum, th

Abstract: An extension piece portion is provided at a lower end portion of a screen plate so as to extend from the lower end portion, beyond a gas-passing through hole, to an oil pocket portion. An oil guide portion is provided at respective gas-hitting-side face portions of the screen plate and the extension piece portion so as to guide oil trapped at the above-described face portions into the oil pocket portion. Accordingly, it can be prevented that part of the oil in the middle of dropping down into the oil pocket portion from the screen plate is carried away by the gas flow passing through the gas-passing through hole, so that the efficiency of oil trap can be improved.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has: an intermediate transfer body which carries an image; a transfer mechanism which transfers the image carried on the intermediate transfer body, onto a transfer surface of a recording medium fixed to a surface of a rotating body; and a fixing mechanism which is disposed so as to oppose the surface of the rotating body to a downstream side of the transfer mechanism in terms of a direction of rotation of the rotating body, and which fixes the image that has been transferred to the transfer surface of the recording medium, onto the recording medium.

Abstract: A medium holding apparatus includes: a medium holding device which includes: flow channel forming sections having openings respectively and provided according to a prescribed arrangement pattern on a medium holding surface on which a medium is fixed and held; flow channel control sections having a smaller cross-sectional area than a cross-sectional area of the flow channel forming sections and restricting a flow rate of air flowing in the flow channel forming sections; and a pressure generating section connected to the flow channel forming sections via the flow channel control sections; and a suction pressure generating device which generates suction pressure that is applied to the medium held on the medium holding device.

Abstract: A medium conveyance apparatus includes: a medium supporting device having a medium supporting surface which supports a rear surface of a medium opposite to a processing object surface; a gripping device which grips a leading end portion of the medium; a fastening device which fastens at least a non-gripped portion of the medium; a conveyance device which conveys the medium held by at least one of the gripping device and the fastening device to a processing region where a processing is performed to the processing object surface; and a control device which controls the gripping device such that after the gripping device has gripped the leading end portion and before the leading end portion arrives at the processing region, at least a part of the gripping device is temporarily opened and then the part of the gripping device having been opened is closed to grip the leading end portion again.

Abstract: Semiconductor surface emitting elements having a plurality of wavelengths being manufactured on a signal substrate through MOVPE selective growth. More specifically, provided is a semiconductor light emitting element array which comprises; a semiconductor crystal substrate; an insulating film disposed on a surface of the substrate, the insulating film being divided into two or more regions, each of which having two or more openings exposing the surface of the substrate; semiconductor rods extending from the surface of the substrate upward through the openings, the semiconductor rods each having an n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer being laminated in its extending direction, thereby providing a p-n junction; a first electrode connected to the semiconductor crystal substrate; and a second electrode connected to upper portions of the semiconductor rods; wherein the heights of the semiconductor rods as measured from the substrate surface vary by each of the two or more regions.

Abstract: To provide a solar cell enabling practical electric power to be obtained and excitons to be effectively collected, and a manufacturing method of the solar cell. A nanowire solar cell 1 comprises: a semiconductor substrate 2; a plurality of nanowire semiconductors 4 and 5 forming pn junctions; a transparent insulating material 6 filled in the gap between the plurality of nanowire semiconductors 4 and 5; an electrode 7 covering the end portion of the plurality of nanowire semiconductors 4 and 5; and a passivation layer 10 provided between the semiconductor 5 and the transparent insulating material 6 and between the semiconductor 5 and the electrode 7.

Abstract: A solar cell element having improved power generation efficiency is provided. A solar cell element 100 has a substrate 110, a mask pattern 120, semiconductor nanorods 130, a first electrode 150 and a second electrode 160. The semiconductor nanorods 130 are disposed in triangular lattice form as viewed in plan on the substrate 110. The ratio p/d of the center-to-center distance p between each adjacent pair of the semiconductor nanorods 130 and the minimum diameter d of the semiconductor nanorods 130 is within the range from 1 to 7. Each semiconductor nanorod 130 has a central nanorod 131 formed of a semiconductor of a first conduction type, a first cover layer 132 formed of an intrinsic semiconductor and covering the central nanorod 131, and a second cover layer 138 formed of a semiconductor of a second conduction type and covering the first cover layer 132.

Abstract: An application apparatus includes: a medium conveying device which holds and conveys a medium in a predetermined conveyance direction; an application roller which applies a liquid to the medium held by the medium conveying device; an application roller rotating device which rotates the application roller at a predetermined rotational speed; a measuring roller which feeds a predetermined measured amount of the liquid to the application roller; a measuring roller rotating device which rotates the measuring roller at a predetermined rotational speed; a first moving device which causes relative movement between the application roller and the medium conveying device to change a distance between the application roller and the medium conveying device; a second moving device which causes relative movement between the application roller and the measuring roller to change a distance between the application roller and the measuring roller; and a movement controlling device which controls the second moving device in such

Abstract: A medium holding apparatus includes: a medium holding conveyance device which has a plurality of suction grooves for suctioning a sheet-shaped medium, and conveys the medium in a prescribed direction while holding the medium on a medium holding surface; and a suction pressure generating device which is connected to the plurality of suction grooves, and generates suction pressure in each of the suction grooves, wherein: the plurality of suction grooves include a leading end suction groove provided at a position where a leading end region of the medium is held, and the leading end suction groove has a structure so as to be separated from other suction grooves of the plurality of suction grooves, and is connected to the suction pressure generating device via a flow channel which is not connected to the other suction grooves.

Abstract: A drawing method includes the steps of: moving a plurality of drawing heads relative to a drawing surface in a predetermined scanning direction, each of the drawing heads being equipped with a drawing point forming section, in which drawing elements for forming drawing points on the drawing surface are arranged two dimensionally; forming the drawing points on the drawing surface sequentially, corresponding to the movement; and performing drawing by the plurality of the drawing heads, which are arranged in a direction that intersects with the scanning direction. Reference points are formed on the drawing surface, by a reference point drawing element which is set in each of the drawing heads, and the drawing timing of each of the drawing heads is controlled such that the reference points formed thereby are arranged at predetermined positions along the scanning direction.

Abstract: The medium holding apparatus includes: a medium holding device having a plurality of suction grooves through which a sheet-shaped medium is held by suction; and a suction pressure generating device which is connected to the suction grooves and generates a suction pressure in each of the suction grooves, wherein the suction pressure in one of the suction grooves that holds a first end portion of the sheet-shaped medium is made stronger than the suction pressure in one of the suction grooves that holds a central portion of the sheet-shaped medium.

Abstract: The inkjet recording apparatus includes: an image formation drum which is rotatable in a prescribed rotational direction and includes a front supporting body and a rear supporting body, outer circumferential surfaces of the front and rear supporting bodies constituting a medium supporting surface on which a recording medium is held, the front supporting body having a leading end holding device capable of holding a leading end portion of the recording medium by gripping, the rear supporting body having a trailing end holding device capable of holding a trailing end portion of the recording medium by suction, the front and rear supporting bodies mutually engaging in a circumferential direction of the image formation drum in a state where a length of the medium supporting surface in the circumferential direction is adjustable in accordance with a length of the recording medium in the circumferential direction; an ink ejection device which is disposed at a position opposing an outer circumferential surface of the

Abstract: Provided is a nanowire photovoltaic cell (1) including a semiconductor substrate (2) and a plurality of nanowire semiconductors (4) and (5) having a PN junction. The semiconductor substrate (2) and the nanowire semiconductors (4) and (5) are composed of one single crystal. The manufacture method of the nanowire photovoltaic cell includes a step of coating a part of a surface of the semiconductor substrate (2) with an amorphous film (3), and a step of developing a crystal of a material identical to that of the semiconductor substrate (2) through epitaxial growth on the uncoated surface of the semiconductor substrate (2) to form the plurality of nanowire semiconductors (4) and (5).

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes: a holding and conveyance device which has a round cylindrical shape and is rotatable about a rotational axis, the holding and conveyance device conveying a recording medium in a prescribed conveyance direction by rotating about the rotational axis while holding the recording medium on an outer circumferential surface of the holding and conveyance device, the holding and conveyance device having a recess section arranged in a direction parallel to the rotational axis at a prescribed position on the outer circumferential surface of the holding and conveyance device; an end portion holding member which is arranged in the recess section and has an end portion holding surface by which at least one of a leading end portion and a trailing end portion of the recording medium held on the outer circumferential surface is held to an inner side relative to an image forming surface of the recording medium held on the outer circumferential surface; and an image forming device which for

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes: a recording medium conveyance device which includes air flow channels and a recording medium holding region on which a recording medium is held, a surface of the recording medium holding region having openings in connection with the air flow channels, the recording medium conveyance device conveying the recording medium in a prescribed conveyance direction while holding the recording medium on the recording medium holding region by suction; a suction device which performs air suction through the openings to perform holding of the recording medium on the recording medium holding region by suction when the recording medium is disposed on the recording medium holding region; an image forming device which performs image formation onto the recording medium held on the recording medium holding region by the suction device; a discharging device which performs air discharge through the openings when no recording medium is disposed on the recording medium holding region; and an ai

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a multijunction solar cell having four-junctions, the method allowing the area of a device to be increased. On a nucleation site formed on a substrate 2, is grown a semiconductor 2a comprising the same material as the substrate 2 in the shape of a wire. On the semiconductor 2a, are successively grown semiconductors 3, 4, 5, and 6 with a narrower band gap in the shape of a wire. The semiconductor 3 may be directly grown in the shape of a wire on the nucleation site formed on the substrate 2. It is preferred to form the nucleation site by forming an amorphous SiO2 coating 8a on the substrate 2 and etching a part of the amorphous SiO2 coating 8a. Further, it is preferred to form an insulating film 8 in the region except the nucleation sites on the substrate 2 by allowing the amorphous SiO2 coating 8a to remain therein. The semiconductor 2a is GaP; the semiconductor 3 is Al0.3Ga0.7As; the semiconductor 4 is GaAs; the semiconductor 5 is In0.3Ga0.

Abstract: A conveying body that can attract and peel-off a recording medium by a simple mechanism, and an image forming device using the conveying body are provided. One end portions of through-holes of a drum are blocked by a blocking member, and a suction member and a blowing-out member are provided at other end portions of the through-holes. Due to a suction pump being operated and suction force being generated within the through-holes via a suction port of the suction member, the suction force passes through the through-holes and acts on long grooves of an outer peripheral surface of the drum, and a sheet can be attracted reliably to the outer peripheral surface of the drum. Further, because air is blown-out from the blowing-out member by operation of the suction pump, a leading end portion of a sheet can be reliably peeled-off from the outer peripheral surface of the drum.