Abstract: An attachment structure of a flat wire harness includes: an attachment target member; a flat wire harness; and an attachment part. In the flat wire harness, a through hole is formed in a part of a base material where a plurality of electrical wires are not disposed. The attachment part includes a rod-like part passing through the through hole, a fixing part provided to a first end portion of the rod-like part to fix the rod-like part to the attachment target member, and a retaining part provided to a second end portion of the rod-like part to prevent the rod-like part from coming out of the through hole. An outer size of the retaining part is larger than a dimension of the through hole, and the dimension of the through hole is equal to or larger than a thickness of the rod-like part.

Abstract: A control device controls a tool having a memory and removably attached to a machine. The control device includes a tool information reading unit that reads at least one of tool setting information and tool status information written in the memory of the tool, and a tool setting unit that sets the tool on the basis of at least one of the read tool setting information and tool status information. The tool is driven by a motor having an encoder, and the memory is attached to the encoder.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a pellicle characterized by including a pellicle film and a pellicle frame, in which the pellicle film is stretched on the pellicle frame, and the pellicle film is an annealed pellicle film, and to provide a method for producing a pellicle by stretching a pellicle film on a pellicle frame, including the step of annealing the pellicle film alone before stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame, annealing the pellicle after stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame, or annealing the pellicle film alone and the pellicle both before and after stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a pellicle characterized by including a pellicle film and a pellicle frame, in which the pellicle film is stretched on the pellicle frame, and the pellicle film is an annealed pellicle film, and to provide a method for producing a pellicle by stretching a pellicle film on a pellicle frame, including the step of annealing the pellicle film alone before stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame, annealing the pellicle after stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame, or annealing the pellicle film alone and the pellicle both before and after stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame.

Abstract: There is provided an optical communication apparatus having high communication stability. An optical communication apparatus of the present invention includes: a signal-transmitting portion; and a signal-receiving portion. The signal-transmitting portion includes a light-emitting element, and a first polarizing plate, which light output from the light-emitting element enters, and which is configured to output polarized light. The signal-receiving portion includes a second polarizing plate, which the light from the signal-transmitting portion enters, and a light-receiving element configured to receive light passing through the second polarizing plate. The first polarizing plate includes a first reflective polarizer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pellicle frame, a pellicle, an exposure original plate with the pellicle, an exposure method, and a semiconductor or liquid-crystal-display manufacturing method, the pellicle frame constituting a pellicle for photolithography.

Abstract: Provided is an agglutinant for pellicles that can reduce residues stuck onto an exposure original plate when a pellicle is peeled from the exposure original plate after being used in lithography, in particular ArF lithography, and also provided are a pellicle, an exposure original plate with a pellicle, a method for regenerating an exposure original plate, and a peeling residue reduction method. An agglutinant for pellicles for bonding a pellicle to an exposure original plate, in which the agglutinant includes an acrylic polymer having an SP value of 10.0 or more and 12.0 or less as a base material.

Abstract: Provided is an agglutinant for pellicles that can reduce residues stuck onto an exposure original plate when a pellicle is peeled from the exposure original plate after being used in lithography, in particular ArF lithography, and also provided are a pellicle, an exposure original plate with a pellicle, a method for regenerating an exposure original plate, and a peeling residue reduction method. An agglutinant for pellicles for bonding a pellicle to an exposure original plate, the agglutinant comprising a polyvinyl ether compound.

Abstract: Provided is a pellicle that can reduce residues stuck onto an exposure original plate when the pellicle is peeled from the exposure original plate after being used in lithography, in particular ArF lithography, and also provided are an exposure original plate with a pellicle, a method for regenerating an exposure original plate, and a peeling residue reduction method. A pellicle includes a pellicle film, a pellicle frame provided with the pellicle film on one end face thereof, and an agglutinant layer provided on the other end face of the pellicle frame. When the agglutinant layer of the pellicle is bonded to a quartz mask substrate, then a portion to which the agglutinant layer of the pellicle is bonded is irradiated with 193-nm ultraviolet rays at 10 J/cm2 from a back surface of the substrate, and the pellicle is peeled after the irradiation, an amount of peeling residues of the agglutinant layer remaining on the substrate is 0.5 mg or less.

Abstract: Provided is an agglutinant for pellicles that can reduce residues stuck onto an exposure original plate when a pellicle is peeled from the exposure original plate after exposure, in particular exposure using ArF as an exposure light source, and also provided are a pellicle, an exposure original plate with a pellicle, a method for regenerating an exposure original plate, and a peeling residue reduction method. An agglutinant for pellicles for bonding a pellicle to an exposure original plate, the agglutinant comprising an acrylic polymer as a base material, the acrylic polymer comprising, as monomer components: a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester having a C4 or less alkyl group; and a (meth)acrylic acid ester having an ether bond.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a pellicle characterized by including a pellicle film and a pellicle frame, in which the pellicle film is stretched on the pellicle frame, and the pellicle film is an annealed pellicle film, and to provide a method for producing a pellicle by stretching a pellicle film on a pellicle frame, including the step of annealing the pellicle film alone before stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame, annealing the pellicle after stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame, or annealing the pellicle film alone and the to pellicle both before and after stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a pellicle characterized by including a pellicle film and a pellicle frame, in which the pellicle film is stretched on the pellicle frame, and the pellicle film is an annealed pellicle film, and to provide a method for producing a pellicle by stretching a pellicle film on a pellicle frame, including the step of annealing the pellicle film alone before stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame, annealing the pellicle after stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame, or annealing the pellicle film alone and the pellicle both before and after stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a pellicle characterized by including a pellicle film and a pellicle frame, in which the pellicle film is stretched on the pellicle frame, and the pellicle film is an annealed pellicle film, and to provide a method for producing a pellicle by stretching a pellicle film on a pellicle frame, including the step of annealing the pellicle film alone before stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame, annealing the pellicle after stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame, or annealing the pellicle film alone and the pellicle both before and after stretching the pellicle film on the pellicle frame.

Abstract: There is provided a pellicle frame and a pellicle using the frame, which has a hollow space inside a corner portion of the frame and optionally one or more hollow spaces in a straight portion (bar) of the frame, and also a hollow space in a corner portion of the frame may communicate with a neighboring hollow space in a straight portion of the frame.

Abstract: There is provided an optical filter that can improve the stability of optical communication when used in an optical communication apparatus. The optical filter includes a polarizing plate. The optical filter is used in a transmitter of an optical communication apparatus. In one embodiment, the optical filter further includes a ?/4 plate, wherein an angle formed by an absorption axis of the polarizer of the polarizing plate and a slow axis of the ?/4 plate is from 38° to 52°, and wherein the optical filter is used by being arranged so that the ?/4 plate is on a light-emitting element side of the transmitter.

Abstract: There is provided an optical communication apparatus having high communication stability. An optical communication apparatus of the present invention includes: a signal-transmitting portion; and a signal-receiving portion. The signal-transmitting portion includes a light-emitting element, and a first polarizing plate, which light output from the light-emitting element enters, and which is configured to output polarized light. The signal-receiving portion includes a second polarizing plate, which the light from the signal-transmitting portion enters, and a light-receiving element configured to receive light passing through the second polarizing plate. The first polarizing plate includes a first reflective polarizer.

Abstract: A spring brake chamber includes a first case, a second case, and a coupling case. The first case includes an open end, a closed end, and an open end portion. The open end portion of the first case includes a tapered outer positioning portion having a diameter that increases toward the open end. The coupling case couples the first case and the second case. The coupling case includes an open end closer to the first case and an open end portion. The open end portion of the coupling case includes a tapered inner positioning portion having a diameter that decreases toward the open end. The first case is positioned relative to the coupling case by attaching the outer positioning portion to an outer side of the inner positioning portion.

Abstract: There is provided a pellicle for EUV lithography, which has a filter attached to a vent hole made through a pellicle frame bar for air pressure adjustment, and this filter is designed to be heat-resistant by being made of either a metal or a ceramic material, and is adhered to the pellicle frame by weldering or soldering, and also the filter has a filtration accuracy of 0.1 through 0.3 ?m.

Abstract: There is provided a pellicle frame and a pellicle using the frame, which has a hollow space inside a corner portion of the frame and optionally one or more hollow spaces in a straight portion (bar) of the frame, and also a hollow space in a corner portion of the frame may communicate with a neighboring hollow space in a straight portion of the frame.

Abstract: A laminate roll that is an elongated laminate wound in a form of a roll, wherein the laminate includes a transparent electrically conductive film including a polycycloolefin film and a transparent electrically conductive layer, and inclination of the direction of the slow axis of the polycycloolefin film with respect to the longitudinal direction of the elongated laminate falls within a range of±2° over the entire elongated laminate except opposite end portions thereof each of which accounts for 5% of the entire width of the elongated laminate.