Abstract: An electric linear actuator has a housing with an electric motor, a speed reduction mechanism and a ball screw mechanism. The ball screw mechanism converts the rotational motion of the electric motor to an axial linear motion of a drive shaft. The ball screw mechanism has a nut and a screw shaft. The screw shaft is inserted into the nut, via a large number of balls. The screw shaft is axially movably supported on the housing but is non-rotatable with respect to the housing. An output gear, forming part of the speed reduction mechanism, is secured on the nut. The bearings are arranged at either side of the output gear. The bearings are mounted on the housing, via a ring-shaped washer, formed from an elastic member.

Abstract: A gas concentration measurement device includes a light source that emits infrared light, a detector that detects the infrared light through a band pass filter, and a waveguide including a wave-guiding portion that includes a tubular inner peripheral surface, an entrance that introduces the infrared light from the light source to the wave-guiding portion, and an exit that guides the infrared light that passes through the wave-guiding portion toward the detector. A portion or the entirety of the inner peripheral surface of the wave-guiding portion includes a tapered region that includes a cross section that decreases along a direction extending from the entrance to the exit. The waveguide reflects the infrared light that enters the wave-guiding portion to reduce energy of the infrared light that is obliquely incident on the band pass filter.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. Also provided are: a semiconductor device which can be obtained by the method; and a dispersion that can be used in the method. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device (500a) of the present invention comprises the steps (a)-(c) described below and is characterized in that the crystal orientation of a first dopant implanted layer (52) is the same as the crystal orientation of a semiconductor layer or a base (10) that is formed of a semiconductor element. (a) A dispersion which contains doped particles is applied to a specific part of a layer or a base. (b) An unsintered dopant implanted layer is obtained by drying the applied dispersion. (c) The specific part of the layer or the base is doped with a p-type or n-type dopant by irradiating the unsintered dopant implanted layer with light, and the unsintered dopant implanted layer is sintered, thereby obtaining a dopant implanted layer that is integrated with the layer or the base.

Abstract: An electric linear actuator has a cylindrical housing, an electric motor, a speed reduction mechanism, and a ball screw mechanism. The ball screw mechanism has a nut and a screw shaft coaxially integrated with the drive shaft. The housing has receiving bores to receive the screw shaft. A cylindrical sleeve is securely press-fit into the receiving bore of the housing. The sleeve has one pair of axially extending recessed grooves formed on its inner circumference at diametrically opposed positions. A guide pin, mounted on the end of the screw shaft, engages the recessed grooves. An annular groove is formed near an opening of the receiving bore of the housing. The sleeve is held in the receiving bore by a stopper ring snapped into the annular groove.

Abstract: An electric linear actuator has a housing, an electric motor mounted on the housing, a speed reduction mechanism, and a ball screw mechanism. The ball screw mechanism has a nut and screw shaft. Both have helical screw grooves. The screw shaft is inserted into the nut, via a large number of balls. A sleeve is secured on the housing to prevent rotation of the screw shaft relative to the housing. At least one axially extending recessed groove is formed on the inner circumference of the sleeve. At least one guide pin, mounted on the end of the screw shaft, engages the recessed groove. A tapering chamfered portion is formed on the end of the nut.

Abstract: The present invention is a developing treatment apparatus for performing development by supplying a developing solution to a substrate having a front surface coated with a positive resist or a negative resist and then subjected to exposure wherein a movable cup is raised to introduce one of scattering developing solutions for the positive and negative resists into an inner peripheral flow path of a cup and the movable cup is lowered to introduce the other of scattering developing solutions for the positive and negative resists into an outer peripheral flow path of the cup, and the developing solution introduced into the inner peripheral flow path and the developing solution introduced into the outer peripheral flow path are separately drained.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. Also provided are: a semiconductor device which can be obtained by the method; and a dispersion that can be used in the method. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device (500a) of the present invention includes the steps (a)-(c) described below. (a) A dispersion which contains doped particles is applied to a specific part of a layer or a base. (b) An unsintered dopant implanted layer is obtained by drying the applied dispersion. (c) The specific part of the layer or the base is doped with a p-type or n-type dopant by irradiating the unsintered dopant implanted layer with light, and the unsintered dopant implanted layer is sintered, thereby obtaining a dopant implanted layer that is integrated with the layer or the base.

Abstract: The present invention is a developing treatment apparatus for performing development by supplying a developing solution to a substrate having a front surface coated with a positive resist or a negative resist and then subjected to exposure wherein a movable cup is raised to introduce one of scattering developing solutions for the positive and negative resists into an inner peripheral flow path of a cup and the movable cup is lowered to introduce the other of scattering developing solutions for the positive and negative resists into an outer peripheral flow path of the cup, and the developing solution introduced into the inner peripheral flow path and the developing solution introduced into the outer peripheral flow path are separately drained.

Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid processing apparatus and a cleaning method which may perform cleaning on a portion which is not in the vicinity of a drain section in an exhaust route. The liquid processing apparatus includes an exhaust section provided in vicinity of the drain section, which is configured to exhaust a surrounding atmosphere of the substrate held by the substrate holding unit; an exhaust route forming member configured to form an exhaust route reaching the exhaust section; and a first cleaning unit configured to supply a cleaning liquid to the exhaust route forming member at the exhaust route side.

Abstract: An electric linear actuator has a housing, an electric motor, a speed reduction mechanism, and a ball screw mechanism. The ball screw mechanism has a nut and a screw shaft. The nut is rotationally supported by bearings on the housing but is axially immovable. The screw shaft is rotationally supported on the nut and is axially movable with respect to the housing. The housing has a first housing and a second housing abutting against one another. Bores contain the screw shaft in the housing. The speed reduction mechanism has an input gear, an intermediate gear, and an output gear, secured on the nut, mating with the intermediate gear. The intermediate gear is rotationally supported, via a bearing, on a shaft. The shaft is supported at its opposite ends on the first and second housings.

Abstract: The present invention is a developing treatment apparatus for performing development by supplying a developing solution to a substrate having a front surface coated with a positive resist or a negative resist and then subjected to exposure wherein a movable cup is raised to introduce one of scattering developing solutions for the positive and negative resists into an inner peripheral flow path of a cup and the movable cup is lowered to introduce the other of scattering developing solutions for the positive and negative resists into an outer peripheral flow path of the cup, and the developing solution introduced into the inner peripheral flow path and the developing solution introduced into the outer peripheral flow path are separately drained.

Abstract: An electric linear actuator has a housing, an electric motor mounted on the housing, a speed reduction mechanism, and a ball screw mechanism. The ball screw mechanism has a nut and screw shaft. Both have helical screw grooves. The screw shaft is inserted into the nut, via a large number of balls. A sleeve is secured on the housing to prevent rotation of the screw shaft relative to the housing. At least one axially extending recessed groove is formed on the inner circumference of the sleeve. At least one guide pin, mounted on the end of the screw shaft, engages the recessed groove. A tapering chamfered portion is formed on the end of the nut.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus according to a present embodiment has a CCD and an LED control section which controls LED1 and LED2. The LED control section sequentially drives the two LEDs, LED1 and LED2, on the basis of an image pickup start timing signal corresponding to each image pickup cycle S for the CCD within the image pickup cycle S such that driving time periods for LED1 and LED2 do not overlap. The LED control section also variably controls the driving time periods for LED1 and LED2 to adjust an amount of exposure within the image pickup cycle S and performs control so as to conduct, within the image pickup cycle S, at least a first drive within the image pickup cycle S of LED2 that is a second or subsequent one to be driven with reference to a timing for driving of LED1 that is driven earlier.

Abstract: An electric linear actuator has a housing, an electric motor, a speed reduction mechanism and a ball screw mechanism. The electric linear actuator further includes an anti-rotation mechanism to prevent rotation of the screw shaft relative to the housing. The anti-rotation mechanism includes a sleeve and guide pin. The sleeve fits into a blind bore of the housing. The guide pin mounts on the end of the screw shaft, via a through aperture in the screw shaft. The guide pin engages linear recessed grooves of the sleeve. The sleeve is fit into a blind bore of the housing so that flat portions formed on an outer circumference of the sleeve engage flat surfaces formed on an inner circumference of the blind bore of the housing to prevent rotation of the sleeve relative to the housing.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic semiconductor solution that can produce an organic semiconductor film having acceptable semiconductor properties while endowed with improved film-forming properties due to substantial polymer content. This organic semiconductor solution contains an organic solvent as well as a polymer and an organic semiconductor precursor dissolved in the organic solvent. The proportion of the polymer in relation to the total of the polymer and the organic semiconductor precursor is equal to or greater than 3 mass %. The organic semiconductor precursor has a structure in which a dienophile-type alkene is eliminably bonded through a double bond thereof to the benzene ring of an organic semiconductor compound represented by formula I) (where A1 to A8 and E1 to E4 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atoms, halogen atoms, C1 to C20 alkyl groups, and the like, and Y represents sulfur or selenium).

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle including a nonvolatile memory which is electrically erasable and writable detects, on start-up, whether or not an error occurs in updated data read from the nonvolatile memory, and when an error has been detected, performs a reset after saving error information. When being restarted by the reset, the control device for a vehicle determines on the basis of the error information whether or not there is updated data in which an error has occurred, and when there is updated data in which an error has occurred, overwrites the updated data with a fixed value prior to the error detection. Accordingly, there can be suppressed a case in which the error detection is performed while the updated data with an abnormality is present causing the reset and the error detection to be repeated.

Abstract: Provided are a novel adduct compound and a novel ?-diketone compound, from which organic semiconductor layers consisting of a fused polycyclic aromatic compound can be formed by a solution method, said solution method being generally easier than a deposition method. Also provided are a method for the purification of the adduct compound, and a solution for the formation of organic semiconductor film, which contains the adduct compound. The adduct compound has a structure wherein a compound having a double bond is added in an eliminable state to a fused polycyclic aromatic compound of general formula (I): Ar1Ar2Ar3 (I), while the ?-diketone compound has a structure wherein a compound having a double bond is added in an eliminable state to a fused polycyclic aromatic compound. The fused polycyclic aromatic compound is dinaphthothienothiophene or the like, while the compound having a double bond is hexachlorocyclopentadiene or the like.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a semiconductor laminate including a substrate having formed thereon a silicon layer with small surface unevenness and high continuity. The method of the present invention for producing a semiconductor laminate having a substrate 10 and a sintered silicon particle layer 5 on the substrate includes (a) coating a silicon particle dispersion containing a dispersion medium and silicon particles dispersed in the dispersion medium, on a substrate 10 to form a silicon particle dispersion layer 1, (b) drying the silicon particle dispersion layer 1 to form a green silicon particle layer 2, (c) stacking a light-transmitting layer 3 on the green silicon particle layer, and (d) irradiating the green silicon particle layer 2 with light through the light-transmitting layer 3 to sinter the silicon particles constituting the green silicon particle layer 2, and thereby form a sintered silicon particle layer 5.

Abstract: An electric linear actuator has a cylindrical housing, an electric motor, a speed reduction mechanism, and a ball screw mechanism. The ball screw mechanism has a nut and a screw shaft coaxially integrated with the drive shaft. The housing has receiving bores to receive the screw shaft. A cylindrical sleeve is securely press-fit into the receiving bore of the housing. The sleeve has one pair of axially extending recessed grooves formed on its inner circumference at diametrically opposed positions. A guide pin, mounted on the end of the screw shaft, engages the recessed grooves. An annular groove is formed near an opening of the receiving bore of the housing. The sleeve is held in the receiving bore by a stopper ring snapped into the annular groove.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes first and second nozzles that eject a processing liquid to a substrate; a moving mechanism that moves the first and second nozzles; and a nozzle cleaning device that cleans at least the second nozzle. The nozzle cleaning device includes a cleaning bath and an overflow bath. The cleaning bath includes a liquid storage portion that stores a cleaning liquid for cleaning the second nozzle, and an overflow portion that discharges the cleaning liquid exceeding a predetermined level from the liquid storage portion. The overflow bath is disposed adjacent to the cleaning bath and receives the cleaning liquid discharged from the overflow portion and discharge the received cleaning liquid to the outside.