Abstract: A capacitor capacitance diagnosis device includes a power supply which is for charging a capacitor, a discharge circuit which is connected to the capacitor in parallel to discharge energy of the capacitor, a resistance dividing circuit which is for measuring voltage drop value during discharging, a measurement circuit which measures divided voltage, and a diagnosis circuit which determines adequacy of capacitor capacitance from a time change in voltage due to the discharge. This makes it possible to diagnose adequacy of capacitor capacitance of an electric power apparatus during operation.

Abstract: A substrate holder has two holder constituting bodies, each having a plurality of columns arranged on an imaginary circle, and substrate holding sections that hold circumferential portions of respective substrates. The holder constituting bodies hold the substrates so that either their front surfaces or their back surfaces face upward with a substrate having an upward facing front and a substrate having an upward facing rear being alternately arranged in a vertical direction. At least one of the holder constituting bodies moves in the vertical direction to change the positions of the holder constituting bodies relative to each other. A distance between a first pair of vertically adjacent substrates with their respective front surfaces facing each other is set to ensure treatment uniformity, and to be larger than a distance between a second pair of vertically adjacent substrates with their respective back surfaces facing each other.

Abstract: A surge absorbing circuit capable of absorbing surge stably without affecting a signal on a signal line even in the case of a high frequency signal, and an electronic device using the surge absorbing circuit. The surge absorbing circuit includes at least one surge suppression circuit, the at least one surge suppression circuit including, with respect to the same signal line at least: a power supply; a diode connected between the signal line and the power supply; and a power supply line for connecting the diode and the power supply to each other. In each of the at least one surge suppression circuit, a direction of the diode and a voltage of the power supply with respect to the signal line are determined so that the diode is reversely biased.

Abstract: A substrate conveying container opening/closing device includes an elevator carriage provided in a substrate transfer area and configured to be moved up and down by an elevator mechanism, a cover member for opening and closing an opening of a wall, a seal member for sealing a gap between the cover member and the periphery of the opening, a lid detaching/attaching mechanism provided in the cover member and configured to detach and attach the lid, a guide unit provided in the elevator carriage and configured to guide the cover member upward so that the cover member can advance from a retracting position toward the wall, a guideway provided in the wall to extend in a direction perpendicular to a seal surface of the opening, and a rotating body provided in the cover member and configured to roll downward along the guideway as the elevator carriage is moved downward.

Abstract: A next command reference value close to a “the value L serving as a reference” is read from its own path table, and if there is the read command reference value in its own path table, then it is determined whether or not the “the value L serving as a reference” reaches the command reference value. When the “the value L serving as a reference” reaches the command reference value, if there is a waiting command of waiting for other path table, counting of the “the value L serving as a reference” is stopped. When waiting for the other path table is completed, the stop of counting of the “the value L serving as a reference” is released, the command is executed, and processing is continued.

Abstract: A first transfer inner roller and a first transfer outer roller are arranged such that the leading edge of a recording material is pressed against an intermediate transfer member on the downstream side of an upstream side transfer portion to change a traveling direction of the recording material.

Abstract: A substrate transport apparatus includes a first fork which is disposed to be movable in a forward/backward direction to a substrate holding part to transport a stacked member to or receive the stacked member from the substrate holding part. A second fork is arranged to be reversible and disposed above the first fork to be movable in a forward/backward direction to an accommodating part that accommodates substrates and spacer members to transport a substrate or a spacer member between the accommodating part and the first fork. A first grip module is disposed on a first surface of the second fork to hold and support the substrate from an upward direction. A second grip module is disposed on the first surface of the second fork on the same side as the first grip module to hold and support the spacer member from an upward direction.

Abstract: A substrate conveying method conveying a layered body having first and second substrates stacked with a spacer member provided between their respective bottom surfaces facing each other includes receiving the first substrate by holding the first substrate from below its bottom surface using a first holding mechanism provided on a side of a first fork provided above a second fork, and turning the first fork upside down and placing the received first substrate on the second fork; receiving the spacer member held in a substrate holding part by holding the spacer member from above using a second holding mechanism provided on the same side of the first fork as the first holding mechanism, and placing the received spacer member on the first substrate; and holding the second substrate from above its top surface using the first holding mechanism, and placing the received second substrate on the spacer member.

Abstract: A film deposition apparatus includes a first turntable including at least ten substrate receiving areas that receive corresponding 300 mm substrates; a first reaction gas supplying portion arranged in a first area inside the chamber to supply a first reaction gas; a second reaction gas supplying portion arranged in a second area away from the first reaction gas supplying portion along the rotation direction of the first turntable to supply a second reaction gas; and a separation area arranged between the first and the second areas. The separation area includes a separation gas supplying portion that supplies a separation gas that separates the first reaction and the second reaction gases, and a ceiling surface having a height so that a pressure in a space between the ceiling surface and the first turntable is higher with the separation gas than pressures in the first and the second areas.

Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus has a substrate holder with two holder constituting bodies that each have a plurality of columns and substrate holding sections. One of the holder constituting bodies holds substrates so that their front surfaces face upward, while the other holds the substrates so that their back surfaces face upward. At least one of the holder constituting bodies moves vertically to change the positions of the holder constituting bodies relative to each other. A distance between one of a first pair of vertically-adjacent substrates with respective front surfaces facing each other and the other of the first pair of substrates is set to ensure treatment uniformity and to be larger than a distance between one of a second pair of vertically-adjacent substrates with their respective back surfaces facing each other and the other of the second pair of substrates.

Abstract: In a gas-turbine-stator-vane insert removing device with which welding metal that connects an insert collar, which protrudes outward from an outer circumferential surface of an insert, and a stator-vane-outer-shroud non-gas path surface, which surrounds the periphery of the insert collar, is removed by means of an arc discharge repeated at a short cycle between an electrode and a gas-turbine stator vane, a bottom surface of the electrode has the same plan-view shape as a plan-view shape of the welding metal.

Abstract: A memory other than a non-volatile memory in a numerical controller is divided into a plurality of memory areas in response to a command from a computer connected to the numerical controller. Whether a machining program has been stored in each of the divided memory areas is decided before a machining program stored on a hard disk in the computer is transferred to the memory other than the non-volatile memory. The machining program stored on the hard disk is then written to an area for which it is determined that no machining program is stored.

Abstract: A vertical heat treatment apparatus includes: at least one loading and unloading part 3 and 4 for loading and unloading a carrying container 2 containing a plurality of process objects W into and from said vertical heat treatment apparatus; a first storage part 5 that stores a plurality of carrying containers loaded into said vertical heat treatment apparatus via the loading and unloading part; a heat treatment furnace 7 that accommodates a holder 6 holding a plurality of process objects at multiple levels to perform a predetermined heat treatment to the process objects; and a transfer 8 part that supports thereon a carrying container for transferring process objects between the holder and the carrying container, wherein an upper loading and unloading part 3 and a lower loading and unloading part 4 are provided as said at least one loading and unloading part, and a second storage part 20 that stores a carrying container is disposed between the upper and lower loading and unloading parts.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member on which a toner image is to be formed; a transferring device for transferring the toner image onto a transfer material at a transfer position; a separating member, disposed downstream of the transfer position with respect to a rotational direction of the image bearing member so as to contact the image bearing member, for separating the transfer material from the image bearing member; a density detecting device, disposed downstream of the transfer position with respect to the rotational direction of the image bearing member, for detecting a density of an image for density detection formed on the image bearing member; and an air moving device for moving air in the image forming apparatus in a direction of a rotation shaft of the image bearing member; wherein the density detecting device is disposed upstream of the separating member with respect to a direction of air movement by the air moving device.

Abstract: A film forming apparatus that produces a thin film by repeating cycles of sequentially supplying reaction gases including a loading table in a vacuum vessel having substrate mounting areas; reaction gas supplying units arranged in a peripheral direction with intervals to supply the reaction gases onto substrates; separating areas separating atmospheres of the processing areas; separation gas supplying units supplying separation gases to render a supply amount to outer peripheral side separation areas greater than a supply amount to center side separation areas; a ceiling face surrounding narrow areas together with the loading table to enable the separation gases flow from the separating areas to the processing areas along the center side separation areas and the outer peripheral side separation areas a vacuum ejecting mechanism; and a rotary mechanism rotating the loading table relative to the reaction gas supplying units and the separating areas.

Abstract: A numerical controller including a storage device for storing tabular data configured to operate one arbitrary axis, in which a position of a spindle or an axis as a control object is caused to correspond to a reference value composed of time or the position of a reference spindle or axis. A reading device is provided for successively reading a reference value in the tabular data and a position of the spindle or the axis as control object corresponding to the reference value from the storage device, and controls the position of the spindle or the axis as control object based on the reference value read by the reading device. An assignment device is provided for assigning the axis to be operated in accordance with the tabular data, and a starting device for starting the tabular data stored in the storage device, thereby causing the axis assigned by the assigning device to operate.

Abstract: A film deposition device includes a chamber, a turntable, a first reactive gas supplying portion, a second reactive gas supplying portion, and a separation gas supplying portion. A convex part includes a ceiling surface to cover both sides of the separation gas supplying portion, form a first space between the ceiling surface and the turntable where a separation gas flows, and form a separation area between a first area and a second area, to maintain a pressure in the first space to be higher than pressures in the first area and the second area so that a first reactive gas and a second reactive gas are separated by the separation gas in the separation area. A block member is arranged to form a second space between the turntable and an internal surface of the chamber at an upstream part of the separation area along a rotation direction of the turntable.

Abstract: By coating the surface of a powder comprising a silicone resin and/or an organic powder with a specific hydrophilizing agent, such powder is hydrophilized. Such coated (treated) powder has extremely great dispersibility (ease of dispersion) and very good dispersion stability (long-term dispersion stability with lapse of time) in aqueous dispersion media, particularly under acidic and alkaline conditions, specifically at pH 3 through 13. Using the surface-treated powder, additionally, a dispersion with good dispersibility (ease of dispersion) and great dispersion stability, preferably for cosmetics can be provided. The use of the surface-treated powder, or the use of the dispersion can provide further a cosmetic excellent in dispersibility and dispersion stability and further in re-dispersibility and dispersion stability with lapse of time and smooth feeling as compared to the related art when selecting aqueous cosmetic as an agent form.

Abstract: A switchgear operating apparatus provided with an electronic switching device (7) connected to a negative electrode side of a DC power supply and a plurality of operating coils (4) which are simultaneously energized and controlled by the electronic switching device (7) for performing on/off operations of a three-phase switchgear includes diodes (6a, 6b, 6c) connected between the individual operating coils (4) and the electronic switching device (7), and a voltage detector (9) for detecting potential differences applied to the individual diodes (6a, 6b, 6c) and the electronic switching device (7).

Abstract: A film deposition apparatus is provided with a gas nozzle in which ejection holes that eject a reaction gas are formed along a longitudinal direction of the gas nozzle, and a flow regulation member that protrudes from the gas nozzle in either one of upstream and downstream directions of a rotation direction of a turntable. In such a configuration, a separation gas flowing from an upstream side of the rotation direction to the gas nozzle is restricted from flowing between the gas nozzle and the turntable on which a substrate is placed, and the reaction gas flowing upward from the turntable is restricted by the separation gas, thereby impeding a reaction gas concentration in a process area from being lowered.