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: 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: The image forming apparatus includes: an image forming device which forms an image on a recording medium; a transparent UV ink droplet ejection device which ejects and deposits droplets of transparent UV ink onto the recording medium; a UV light irradiation device which irradiates UV light onto the transparent UV ink having been deposited on the recording medium; a gloss condition setting device which sets a gloss condition of the image; and a UV light irradiation control device which controls an irradiation timing of the UV light irradiated from the UV light irradiation device in accordance with the gloss condition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a drawing device. A drawing component includes a stage and a drawing head. The drawing head draws on a recording medium supported by the stage. A moving component relatively moves the stage and the drawing head. A position detection component detects a relative position of the stage and the drawing head. An error detection component detects an abnormal state in which an abnormal drawing is performed on the recording medium. When the abnormal state is detected, a controller stops drawing with the drawing head and returns the relative position from the stop position to the position of the drawing start side, so that drawing may be resumed from a position within a predetermined range including the stop position.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inexpensive exposure device with a simple structure which can draw in high precision by correcting drawing pixel positions at a time of exposing by respective beams emitted from a side of a device for selectively modulating a plurality of pixels so as to draw. A predetermined drawing shape is obtained by relatively moving a stage and an exposure head so as to execute a scanning exposure in accordance with a predetermined pattern in a state of regulating an image allocated to each of drawing pixels on the basis of correcting data, stored in a memory of a control unit, at least relating to a locus of drawing pixel positions corresponding to scanning positions of predetermined drawing pixels necessary for correction, and radiating each of light beams emitted from a device disposed in the exposure head selectively modulating a plurality of drawing pixels on the basis of the adjusted image data on an exposure member mounted on the stage.

Abstract: An image position measuring apparatus is provided with a photographing unit including an image pickup device and/or a lens to measure a position of a reference mark formed on a work and a correcting unit for correcting distortion(s) of the image pickup device and/or the lens. An exposure apparatus is provided with an image position measuring apparatus and an exposure unit for exposing the work based on image data corrected based on positional information of the reference mark photographed by the image position measuring apparatus. Influences of the distortions of the image pickup device and the lens can be eliminated and accuracy of measurement of the position of the reference mark provided to the work can be improved.

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 method of production of a multilayer ceramic electronic device having dielectric layers with an interlayer thickness of 5 ?m or less and internal electrode layers including a base metal, including the steps of firing, then annealing a stack comprised of a dielectric layer paste and an internal electrode layer paste including a base metal alternately arranged in 100 layers or more under a reducing atmosphere, treating the annealed stack by first heat treatment under a strong reducing atmosphere of an oxygen partial pressure P3 of over 2.9×10?39 Pa to less than 6.7×10?24 Pa at a holding temperature T3 of over 300° C. to less than 600° C. The stack after the first heat treatment is treated by second heat treatment under an atmosphere of an oxygen partial pressure P4 of over 1.9×10?7 Pa to less than 4.1×10?3 Pa at a holding temperature T4 of over 500° C. to less than 1000° C.

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: An image plotting apparatus capable of minimizing displacement between each partial image plotted sequentially. While a table (14) with a work (12) placed thereon is moved relative to an image plotting means (30) such that an image plotting error arising from displacement of the table (14) when an image pattern is plotted by the image plotting means (30) on the work (12) placed on the table (14) is eliminated using image plotting position deviation information, obtained in advance, representing an image plotting position deviation, which indicates displacement of the table (14) with respect to the image plotting means (30) that occurs in the movement of the table (14), in association with each of the moving direction positions of the table (14), partial images, each corresponding to each moving direction position of the table (14) with respect to the image plotting means (30), are plotted on the work (12) placed on the table (14), thereby a predetermined image pattern is plotted on the work (12).

Abstract: A work position information obtaining apparatus capable of obtaining a position of a work with respect to a table with high accuracy. Moving a table with a work placed thereon relative to an imaging section. Obtaining work position information representing a position of the work with respect to the table based on imaged information obtained by imaging table and work reference marks by the imaging section and moving direction positions of the table at the time of imaging the table and work reference marks. Obtaining the positional deviations of the table at the time of imaging the table and work reference marks, with reference to a positional deviation of the table obtained in advance in association with each of the moving direction positions of the table. Then, eliminating an error included in the work position information arising from the difference between each imaged positional deviation.

Abstract: To effectively utilize the living space in which the bath space and the toilet space are located and widths for the entrance side and outer side are different. In a collective lodging facility having multiple living units A and B functioning as private rooms, the bath space 3 and the bed space 2 are located at the side opposite to the adjoining side of the two living spaces 2 and 3 and are arranged next to the other in the depth direction therein. On the adjoining side, two toilet spaces 4 and 4 are arranged in the depth direction making L-like line in the living units A and B: these toilet spaces 4 and 4 are accessible from the entrance from the respective living unit.

Abstract: A digital exposure apparatus for forming a pattern on a topside surface of a substrate has an alignment unit, which detects a position of the substrate from image data obtained through a camera from a reference mark provided on the topside surface of the substrate. The alignment unit further has a Z-direction sensor to measure a fluctuation amount ? of the topside surface of the substrate from a predetermined focal plane of the camera. Depending upon the measured amount ?, a set of distortion correction data is selected from or calculated on the basis of previously stored distortion correction data. The image data of the reference mark is corrected with the selected or calculated distortion correction data, so that errors induced by the fluctuation from the focal plane are corrected without adjusting the position of the substrate in the direction of an optical axis of the camera of the alignment unit.

Abstract: In a drawing method for drawing an image on a substrate by relatively moving a drawing head that forms, based on input drawing-point data, drawing points on the substrate with respect to the substrate and by sequentially forming the drawing points on the substrate by the drawing head based on the movement of the drawing head, a relative positional deviation between the substrate and the drawing head during drawing of the image is obtained. Further, formation positions of the drawing points by the drawing head are corrected based on the obtained relative positional deviation.

Abstract: The electronic device according to the present invention comprises capacitor element body 4 wherein internal electrode layer 12 and ceramic layer 10 is included. Internal electrode layer 12 includes Ni and at least one element from Re, Ru, and Ir. The ceramic layer 10 substantially doesn't include Re, Ru, Os, and Ir.

Abstract: A pattern forming apparatus as exposure apparatus includes first and second movable stages for respectively supporting first and second boards placed thereon, and for transporting each board back and forth on a transport path. A pattern forming unit with DMD and laser forms a pattern on the board according to pattern data while the board moves into and out of a pattern forming region. A controller controls the pattern forming unit, and in a first period, moves a first board in a first direction on the transport path among plural boards, to form the pattern, and in a second period, moves a second board in the first direction on the transport path among the plural boards, to form the pattern. The pattern forming unit is disposed in a middle of the transport path, and is passed by the movable stages, for pattern forming selectively on the first and second boards.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that forms images, while continuously conveying, a long flexible recording medium in a constant conveyance direction on a conveyance path, the image forming apparatus comprising: a belt conveyance mechanism that is disposed on the conveyance path and is configured by an endless belt wound between at least two rollers; and an image forming unit that conducts image forming on the long flexible recording medium being conveyed in a state where the long flexible recording medium is flatly disposed on the endless belt of the belt conveyance mechanism disposed on the conveyance path.

Abstract: An alignment section calibration system used in a device which handles elongated, flexible recording media, has an alignment section, a calibration member, and a relative moving mechanism. The alignment section is disposed so as to be able to carry out detection at a position of an area at which alignment is carried out and which is set on a conveying path, at a time when image-drawing is carried out by an image-drawing unit while a flexible recording medium is conveyed in a given conveying direction on a conveying path which is set at a conveying section for scanning. The calibration member disposed at a position further toward the alignment section than the conveying path. The relative moving mechanism relatively moves the alignment section and the calibration member, such that the alignment section is set in a state of detecting the calibration member.

Abstract: An image forming device in which, at a loading position, recording media are loaded onto stage members, and images are formed on the recording media while the stage members pass through an image forming section, and thereafter, the recording media are removed from the stage members at a removal position. In the image forming device, two traveling bodies, which move along predetermined paths between the loading position and the removal position, are provided in parallel. The stage members are mounted to the traveling bodies respectively so as to jut out from the traveling bodies. Each traveling body has a mechanism which moves the traveling body in vertical directions so that the stage members do not interfere with one another when they pass by one another. Image formation is carried out alternately on the recording media loaded on the respective stage members, and image forming processing can be carried out efficiently.

Abstract: A method of production of a multilayer ceramic electronic device having dielectric layers with an interlayer thickness of 5 ?m or less and internal electrode layers including a base metal, including the steps of firing, then annealing a stack comprised of a dielectric layer paste and an internal electrode layer paste including a base metal alternately arranged in 100 layers or more under a reducing atmosphere, treating the annealed stack by first heat treatment under a strong reducing atmosphere of an oxygen partial pressure P3 of over 2.9×10?39 Pa to less than 6.7×10?24 Pa at a holding temperature T3 of over 300° C. to less than 600° C. The stack after the first heat treatment is treated by second heat treatment under an atmosphere of an oxygen partial pressure P4 of over 1.9×10?7 Pa to less than 4.1×10?3 Pa at a holding temperature T4 of over 500° C. to less than 1000° C.