Abstract: An imprint apparatus that performs an imprint process of forming a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold, the apparatus including a control unit configured to control a mold driving unit and a substrate driving unit, and the imprint process including curing the imprint material, and releasing the mold from the cured imprint material, wherein the control unit includes a compensator configured to feedback-control driving of at least one of the mold driving unit and the substrate driving unit such that a positional relationship between the mold and the substrate in the releasing is maintained at a positional relationship between the mold and the substrate in the curing, and makes a gain of the compensator in the releasing smaller than a gain of the compensator in a step of the imprint process other than the releasing.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a filter circuit including: a resistor; a MOS capacitor; and a MOM capacitor stacked on at least one of the resistor or the MOS capacitor, wherein the following inequalities are satisfied: Mc????/?+?×Mr Mr??{square root over (1/2?ft??)}??[Math. 1] where ft denotes a cutoff frequency of the filter circuit, Mr denotes a resistor area of a resistor-provided region in which the resistor is provided, Mc denotes a MOS capacitor area of a MOS capacitor-provided region in which the MOS capacitor is provided, ? denotes a resistivity of the resistor, ? denotes a MOS capacitance rate of the MOS capacitor, and ? denotes a MOM capacitance rate of the MOM capacitor.

Abstract: A vibration-type actuator includes a vibrator including an electro-mechanical energy conversion element and an elastic member, and a contact member. The elastic member includes a rectangular plate portion along the first direction, a protruding portion protruding in a second direction crossing the first direction, and an extending portion extending from the plate portion in a direction along the first direction. The vibration-type actuator further includes a support member to be brought into contact with at least one of the extending portion and the plate portion to support the vibrator movably along the second direction. A part of the elastic member is provided with a contact surface and an inclined portion, the contact surface being in contact with the support member along the second direction, the inclined portion being adjacent to the contact surface and being inclined in a direction away from the support member relative to the contact surface.

Abstract: Provided is a support device that supports an object to be supported, in a manner that allows the object to rotate, without rotation of the support device itself. The support device is provided with: a base part; pair of support members that are slidably provided with respect to the base part, and have arc-shaped cut-out portions which sandwich and hold a circumferential surface of an object to be supported, from both sides of the object; a plurality of first biasing members that bias the pair of support members in a direction toward each other; a plurality of bearing parts that are provided along the cut-out portions, and are for sandwiching and holding the object to be supported, in a manner that allows the object to rotate; and a plurality of second biasing members that bias the plurality of bearing parts in a direction toward the object to be supported. The plurality of first biasing members bias the pair of support members.

Abstract: A plurality of line sensors are disposed along a width direction intersecting a sheet conveying direction with respective positions in the width direction partially overlapping with each other, and configured to read images of a plurality of partial areas from the sheet, each of the partial areas including a non-overlapping area which does not overlap with an adjacent area and an overlapping area which overlaps with an adjacent area, each of which is a part of a sheet passing area in the width direction. An image judgment portion judges whether or not data of each of a plurality of read images obtained by the plurality of line sensors satisfies a tolerance condition based on a corresponding reference image data item. An error processing portion executes predetermined error processing when it is judged that the data of any of the plurality of read images does not satisfy the tolerance condition.

Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus that calculates a distance between images taken by a camera at multiple camera stations in a three-dimensional space. The information processing apparatus includes region setting means for setting, as a target region for each camera station, a range of a predetermined shape in a projection plane at a distance determined by a predetermined method relative to the camera within a frustum of the camera at each camera station, on the basis of information regarding a posture of the camera at each camera station, and calculation means for calculating, as a distance value, a proportion in which, given a pair of the images targeted for the distance calculation, the target region for the camera station from which one of the images is taken is included in the target region for the camera station from which the other image is taken.

Abstract: A vibration actuator includes a vibrator, a contact body, at least one pair of first extensions, and at least one pair of second extensions. The vibrator includes a rectangular elastic body and an electromechanical energy transducer. The contact body comes into contact with the rectangular elastic body and the contact body and the vibrator move relative to each other due to vibration of the vibrator. The at least one pair of first extensions is disposed on each of two long sides of the rectangular elastic body, and protrudes in a direction intersecting a long-side direction of the rectangular elastic body. The at least one pair of second extensions is disposed on each of two short sides of the rectangular elastic body, and protrudes in a direction intersecting a short-side direction of the rectangular elastic body.

Abstract: A powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (PBF-AM) apparatus includes an electron gun chamber, a build chamber, a first vacuum pump, a second vacuum pump, and a beam path. In addition, the three-dimensional PBF-AM apparatus includes a differential evacuation aperture, a focusing lens, and an axis adjustment mechanism. The differential evacuation aperture divides an internal space of the beam path into two, and has a restriction hole through which an electron beam can pass. The focusing lens is configured to focus the electron beam by a restriction hole of the differential evacuation aperture. The axis adjustment mechanism is configured to adjust a trajectory of the electron beam or positions of the focusing lens and the differential evacuation aperture so that an optical axis of the electron beam passes through both the center of the restriction hole and the center of the focusing lens.

Abstract: A hand includes a hand part for removing a workpiece; a workpiece holding part that presses the removed workpiece at a prescribed location so as to hold the same; and a base part that supports the hand part and the workpiece holding part.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mold including a pattern to be transferred to an imprint material on a substrate using an imprint apparatus, the mold including: a pattern region in which the pattern is arranged; and a peripheral region surrounding the pattern region and configured to shield light, wherein the pattern region includes a first portion, which is arranged with a mark used to measure a relative position with respect to a substrate mark provided on the substrate and through which an image of the substrate mark passes, and a second portion through which an image of a stage mark provided on a stage holding the substrate passes.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a print system and a management server. The print system includes one or plural image forming apparatuses. The management server receives a print order from a user, and upon receiving the print order, performs a print job using the print system under a print condition specified by the print order. Further, the management server generates a suggestion of a print condition in consideration of operation status of the print system and an amount of a consumable good required for the print job, differently from the print condition specified by the print order, and notifies the user of the suggestion.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including a display image generation section configured to generate display image data by performing a display projection process in a case where panorama image data to be a display target is judged to be a full circumference panorama image.

Abstract: A vibratory actuator includes a vibration member, a contact member, and a pressure member. The vibration member includes an elastic member, having protrusions. The contact member is in contact with the elastic member and moves in a direction relative to the vibration member. The pressure member pressurizes the vibration member and the contact member. Each of the protrusions includes a first contact surface in contact with the contact member. The contact member has a second contact surface made of metal sintered material and in contact with the vibration member. A ratio of a maximum amount of depression on the second contact surface in the direction of pressurization by the pressure member to a width of the first contact surface in a direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the contact member relative to the vibration member and the direction of pressurization by the pressure member is 0.05% or less.

Abstract: An imprint apparatus that performs an imprint process of forming a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold, the apparatus including a control unit configured to control a mold driving unit and a substrate driving unit, and the imprint process including curing the imprint material, and releasing the mold from the cured imprint material, wherein the control unit includes a compensator configured to feedback-control driving of at least one of the mold driving unit and the substrate driving unit such that a positional relationship between the mold and the substrate in the releasing is maintained at a positional relationship between the mold and the substrate in the curing, and makes a gain of the compensator in the releasing smaller than a gain of the compensator in a step of the imprint process other than the releasing.

Abstract: Provided is a support device that supports an object to be supported, in a manner that allows the object to rotate, without rotation of the support device itself. The support device is provided with: a base part; pair of support members that are slidably provided with respect to the base part, and have arc-shaped cut-out portions which sandwich and hold a circumferential surface of an object to be supported, from both sides of the object; a plurality of first biasing members that bias the pair of support members in a direction toward each other; a plurality of bearing parts that are provided along the cut-out portions, and are for sandwiching and holding the object to be supported, in a manner that allows the object to rotate; and a plurality of second biasing members that bias the plurality of bearing parts in a direction toward the object to be supported. The plurality of first biasing members bias the pair of support members.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mold including a pattern to be transferred to an imprint material on a substrate using an imprint apparatus, the mold including: a pattern region in which the pattern is arranged; and a peripheral region surrounding the pattern region and configured to shield light, wherein the pattern region includes a first portion, which is arranged with a mark used to measure a relative position with respect to a substrate mark provided on the substrate and through which an image of the substrate mark passes, and a second portion through which an image of a stage mark provided on a stage holding the substrate passes.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a print system and a management server. The print system includes one or plural image forming apparatuses. The management server receives a print order from a user, and upon receiving the print order, performs a print job using the print system under a print condition specified by the print order. Further, the management server generates a suggestion of a print condition in consideration of operation status of the print system and an amount of a consumable good required for the print job, differently from the print condition specified by the print order, and notifies the user of the suggestion.

Abstract: A device holder (20) that holds a transfer device (800) is provided on a stage (10). The device (800) includes a first connector (810) to which a first container (910) is connectable, a second connector (820) to which a second container (950) is connectable, and a connection port (850) to which a syringe (980) is connectable. The stage (10) can be turned to a first turning position where the first connector (810) is located higher than the second connector (820) and a second turning position where the second connector (820) is located higher than the first connector (810). A second container holder (50) that holds the second container (950) coaxially with the second connector (820) turns together with the stage (10) and can be linearly moved along a direction of an axis of the second connector (820).

Abstract: An imprint method for forming a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate includes irradiating the imprint material with light to increase a viscosity of the imprint material on the substrate with a mold and the imprint material being in contact with each other, aligning the substrate and the mold with each other while changing and increasing a control gain to be used in a controller, which is configured to control relative positions of the mold and the substrate so as to reduce a displacement based on a result of detection of the displacement between the substrate and the mold, in such a manner that the control gain increases with the mold and the imprint material being in contact with each other, and curing the imprint material by irradiating the imprint material with light.

Abstract: An electron gun includes a cathode that is heated to emit thermions; a cathode heating power supply that supplies a cathode heating current for heating the cathode; a grid that has a first aperture formed therein and that has a grid voltage applied thereto, the grid voltage having a potential lower than that of the cathode, wherein the grid converges the thermions passing through the first aperture by the grid voltage; an anode that has a second aperture formed therein and that has an anode voltage applied thereto, wherein the anode causes the thermions extracted from the cathode to pass through the second aperture as an electron beam by the anode voltage; an anode-voltage power supply that applies the anode voltage to the anode; and a controller that causes the anode voltage having a positive potential to be applied from the anode-voltage power supply to the anode.