Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a formed article having two or more separate accommodating cavities and an electrode group that comprises a rolled up laminate and is accommodated in each of the accommodating cavities, the laminate composed of a cathode and an anode, each having a current collector and mixture layers disposed on the current collector, and a separator sandwiched between the cathode and the anode. An electrolytic solution is accommodated in each of the accommodating cavities, the electrolytic solution, and the anode or the cathode contact the formed article.

Abstract: A wiping apparatus having a gas injection aperture that injects gas, and a guide section that has a convexly curved surface and has an apex and over which gas injected from the gas injection aperture is blown, and, in this wiping apparatus, foreign substance adhering to a nozzle plate of an ink-jet head placed above the guide section is blown away by gas guided along the curved surface of the guide section.

Abstract: a formed article having two or more separate accommodating cavities; an electrode group that is formed by rolling up a laminate and is accommodated in each of the accommodating cavities, the laminate composed of a cathode and an anode, each having a current collector and mixture layers disposed on the current collector, and a separator sandwiched between the cathode and the anode; and electrolytic solution accommodated in each of the accommodating cavities, wherein the electrolytic solution, and the anode or the cathode contact the formed article.

Abstract: This invention provides a means for suppressing streaks of light emission in an organic EL display having an organic light-emitting layer formed by coating by an ink jet method. A manufacturing process of the organic EL display of this invention includes: preparing a display substrate having two or more linear banks in parallel to each other, and two or more pixel regions arranged in a region between the linear banks; arranging an ink jet head such that the alignment direction of nozzles and the line direction of the linear banks are in parallel; and relatively moving the ink jet head in a direction perpendicular to the line direction of the linear banks and discharging the ink from the nozzles to apply the ink to every region defined by the linear banks.

Abstract: A wiping apparatus having a gas injection aperture that injects gas, and a guide section that has a convexly curved surface and has an apex and over which gas injected from the gas injection aperture is blown, and, in this wiping apparatus, foreign substance adhering to a nozzle plate of an ink-jet head placed above the guide section is blown away by gas guided along the curved surface of the guide section.

Abstract: This invention provides a means for suppressing streaks of light emission in an organic EL display having an organic light-emitting layer formed by coating by an ink jet method. A manufacturing process of the organic EL display of this invention includes: preparing a display substrate having two or more linear banks in parallel to each other, and two or more pixel regions arranged in a region between the linear banks; arranging an ink jet head such that the alignment direction of nozzles and the line direction of the linear banks are in parallel; and relatively moving the ink jet head in a direction perpendicular to the line direction of the linear banks and discharging the ink from the nozzles to apply the ink to every region defined by the linear banks.

Abstract: A method for accurately obtaining, in a short period of time, the position and slope of a specific edge line, even when there are many extraneous points caused by dust and other such garbage or electrical noise around the edge line to be obtained. A window covering the area containing the desired edge line is set, and the area inside the window is scanned at a specific interval in a direction crossing the edge line so as to obtain specific image data. The coordinates of points indicating a change in brightness in the scanning direction are obtained as edge points. The area inside the window is divided into a group of rectangular subareas parallel to the edge line to be detected and at a predetermined pitch and size capable of containing the edge line. The subarea containing the greatest number of edge points is obtained, and the edge line is then estimated from the coordinates of the edge points in this subarea containing the greatest number of edge points.

Abstract: The present invention is an automatic focus adjustment apparatus in which an object to be inspected is picked up by a camera (5) through an optical system (4), a video signal which is opto-electrically converted is transferred to a frame memory (9), image processing of a signal read out from the frame memory (9) is carried out, a focus adjustment evaluation quantity is calculated, and position of said optical system is controlled in a direction that the focus adjustment evaluation quantity approaches the maximum, and the position control operation of the optical system is carried out during a blanking time which is between electric charge storage times of two consecutive images of the camera.

Abstract: A screw adjusting apparatus includes a positioning control device for outputting rotation instructions to a designated position based on a rotation detection signal; an image sensing section; a visual recognition section for processing a video signal outputted from the image sensing section so as to measure position of an object; a screw feeding amount calculating device for deciding a feeding amount of the screw so as to place the object at a predetermined position according to position information outputted from the visual recognition section and the information of the object which has been moved by contact between the screw and a tool; and an instruction control device for issuing instructions to the positioning control device based on a decided feeding amount of the screw.