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Abstract: Provided is a sheet processing apparatus, including: a stacking unit that is capable of stacking discharged sheets; a drive mechanism that is capable of moving the stacking unit; a storage device that holds data on a moving time of the stacking unit in a rewritable manner; an arithmetic unit that is calculates an estimated value of the moving time of the stacking unit based on the data; and a correcting unit that corrects the data held in the storage device by using an actual measurement value of the moving time of the stacking unit.

Abstract: There is disclosed a charged-particle beam system equipped with a higher-order aberration corrector capable of correcting fifth-order spherical aberration and third-order chromatic aberration such that the primary trajectory of an electron beam is not affected by the strength of a transfer lens. The corrector is so adjusted that the image point of the corrector is located at a position shifted a distance of L0 from the principal plane of an objective lens toward the electron source. The transfer lens is so disposed that the position of the principal plane is coincident with the image point of the corrector. Therefore, the primary trajectory of the electron beam passes through the center of the transfer lens. Consequently, the primary trajectory is not affected by the strength of the transfer lens.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for automatically correcting a charged-particle beam with an aberration corrector without the operator performing manual operations. The apparatus has an extraction portion for extracting the profile of the beam from images of a surface of a sample, a calculation unit for calculating the amount of axial deviation of the apparatus from the position of the extracted profile of the beam, and a feedback unit for automatically applying feedback to the aberration corrector or to the objective lens according to the calculated amount of axial deviation.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus including: a conveying unit, which conveys a sheet; a stacking unit on which the conveyed sheet is stacked; a processing unit, which processes the stacked sheet; a buffering unit, which allows the sheet conveyed to the stacking unit by the conveying unit to pass, and buffers a predetermined number of sheets to be passed during an operation of the processing unit; a transferring unit, which receives the buffer sheets and transfers the predetermined number of buffer sheets from the buffering unit to the stacking unit; and a controlling unit, which controls a sheet conveying speed to make a speed when the transferring unit transfers the buffer sheet lower than a speed when the transferring unit receives the buffer sheets to prevent the sheet conveyed by the conveying unit from interfering the transferring unit during an operation of transferring the sheet.

Abstract: There is disclosed a charged-particle beam system equipped with a higher-order aberration corrector capable of correcting fifth-order spherical aberration and third-order chromatic aberration such that the primary trajectory of an electron beam is not affected by the strength of a transfer lens. The corrector is so adjusted that the image point of the corrector is located at a position shifted a distance of L0 from the principal plane of an objective lens toward the electron source. The transfer lens is so disposed that the position of the principal plane is coincident with the image point of the corrector. Therefore, the primary trajectory of the electron beam passes through the center of the transfer lens. Consequently, the primary trajectory is not affected by the strength of the transfer lens.

Abstract: Provided is a sheet processing apparatus, including: a stacking unit that is capable of stacking discharged sheets; a drive mechanism that is capable of moving the stacking unit; a storage device that holds data on a moving time of the stacking unit in a rewritable manner; an arithmetic unit that is calculates an estimated value of the moving time of the stacking unit based on the data; and a correcting unit that corrects the data held in the storage device by using an actual measurement value of the moving time of the stacking unit.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for automatically correcting a charged-particle beam with an aberration corrector without the operator performing manual operations. The apparatus has an extraction portion for extracting the profile of the beam from images of a surface of a sample, a calculation unit for calculating the amount of axial deviation of the apparatus from the position of the extracted profile of the beam, and a feedback unit for automatically applying feedback to the aberration corrector or to the objective lens according to the calculated amount of axial deviation.

Abstract: A metrology instrument and method is offered which is capable of measuring the deviations between elements of an actual pattern at their joint without making any sample pattern for inspection in measuring and inspecting deviations produced at the joint portion when the pattern is drawn or transferred. The deviation ?X parallel to the joint portion is found from an image obtained for inspection. On the other hand, the dose distribution diagrams of both elements of the pattern on the opposite sides of the joint portion are calculated. These dose distribution diagrams are shifted by ?X along the joint portion and by a desired amount ?Y vertical to the joint portion. Then, the diagrams are superimposed together. The resulting image is compared with the image for the inspection and the correlation between them is found. The value of ?Y which minimizes the correlation (i.e., maximizes the degree of similarity) is found.

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Abstract: An aberration corrector comprises four stages of electrostatic quadrupole elements, two stages of electrostatic quadrupole elements for superimposing a magnetic potential distribution analogous to the electric potential distribution created by the two central ones of the four stages of the electrostatic quadrupole elements on the electric potential distribution, an objective lens, a manual operation portion permitting a user to modify the accelerating voltage or the working distance, a power supply for supplying voltages to the four stages of electrostatic quadrupole elements, a power supply for exciting the two stages of magnetic quadrupole elements, a power supply for the objective lens, and a control portion for controlling the power supplies according to a manual operation or setting performed on the manual operation portion.

Abstract: A system using GPS data for locating a person requesting a support. The system includes a mobile terminal carried by a person to acquire the GPS data from GPS satellites and transmits the same upon a request by the person to a message center where the GPS data is processed to calculate the person(s position. The mobile terminal simply acquires the GPS data which is invalid for calculation of the position if the request is made where the GPS satellite is not available. For successfully locating the person's position, the mobile terminal acquires the GPS data regularly at different times in accordance with a time schedule and stores the time-series sets of the GPS data which are transmitted together with a current GPS data acquired in response to the support request, thereby giving the latest available position of the person if the current GPS data is found invalid.

Abstract: An aberration corrector comprises four stages of electrostatic quadrupole elements, two stages of electrostatic quadrupole elements for superimposing a magnetic potential distribution analogous to the electric potential distribution created by the two central ones of the four stages of the electrostatic quadrupole elements on the electric potential distribution, an objective lens, a manual operation portion permitting a user to modify the accelerating voltage or the working distance, a power supply for supplying voltages to the four stages of electrostatic quadrupole elements, a power supply for exciting the two stages of magnetic quadrupole elements, a power supply for the objective lens, and a control portion for controlling the power supplies according to a manual operation or setting performed on the manual operation portion.

Abstract: A support request processing system using GPS data for locating a person requesting a support. The system is supplemented with a mobile terminal to be carried by the person separately from a GPS terminal left in the vehicle. The mobile terminal transmits a support request signal by way of a radio communication to the GPS terminal which responds to receive the GPS data from the GPS satellite and transmits the data to a message center. Upon receiving the GPS data, the message center calculates the position of the GPS terminal and notifies a warning message for rescue of the person. With the inclusion of the mobile terminal, the system can estimate the location of the person around the GPS terminal or the vehicle even when the person is within buildings where the GPS data from the GPS satellites is not available.

Abstract: The present invention provides a refractory and heat insulating material excellent in heat resistance, slag resistance, molten steel resistance, wear resistance, and mechanical impact resistance, and relates to a highly durable heat insulating material characterized by having a thermally sprayed film of refractory ceramic on a surface of a formed body of an inorganic refractory fiber which surface is covered with a cloth material or was covered with the cloth material until it burned out by flame fusion coating of refractory ceramic powder material during the fabricating process of the heat insulating material, with an application film of a surface hardening material acting as an intermediary layer between the thermally sprayed film and the fiber body.

Abstract: A system using GPS data for locating a person requesting a support. The system includes a mobile terminal carried by a person to acquire the GPS data from GPS satellites and transmits the same upon a request by the person to a message center where the GPS data is processed to calculate the person(s position. The mobile terminal simply acquires the GPS data which is invalid for calculation of the position if the request is made where the GPS satellite is not available. For successfully locating the person's position, the mobile terminal acquires the GPS data regularly at different times in accordance with a time schedule and stores the time-series sets of the GPS data which are transmitted together with a current GPS data acquired in response to the support request, thereby giving the latest available position of the person if the current GPS data is found invalid.

Abstract: A metrology instrument and method is offered which is capable of measuring the deviations between elements of an actual pattern at their joint without making any sample pattern for inspection in measuring and inspecting deviations produced at the joint portion when the pattern is drawn or transferred. The deviation &Dgr;X parallel to the joint portion is found from an image obtained for inspection. On the other hand, the dose distribution diagrams of both elements of the pattern on the opposite sides of the joint portion are calculated. These dose distribution diagrams are shifted by &Dgr;X along the joint portion and by a desired amount &Dgr;Y vertical to the joint portion. Then, the diagrams are superimposed together. The resulting image is compared with the image for the inspection and the correlation between them is found. The value of &Dgr;Y which minimizes the correlation (i.e., maximizes the degree of similarity) is found.

Abstract: A support request processing system using GPS data for locating a person requesting a support. The system is supplemented with a mobile terminal to be carried by the person separately from a GPS terminal left in the vehicle. The mobile terminal transmits a support-request signal by way of a radio communication to the GPS terminal which responds to receive the GPS data from the GPS satellite and transmits the data to a message center. Upon receiving the GPS data, the message center calculates the position of the GPS terminal and notifies a warning message for rescue of the person. With the inclusion of the mobile terminal, the system can estimate the location of the person around the GPS terminal or the vehicle even when the person is within buildings where the GPS data from the GPS satellites is not available.

Abstract: A system using GPS data for locating a person requesting a support. The system includes a mobile terminal carried by a person to acquire the GPS data from GPS satellites and transmits the same upon a request by the person to a message center where the GPS data is processed to calculate the person(s position. The mobile terminal simply acquires the GPS data which is invalid for calculation of the position if the request is made where the GPS satellite is not available. For successfully locating the person's position, the mobile terminal acquires the GPS data regularly at different times in accordance with a time schedule and stores the time-series sets of the GPS data which are transmitted together with a current GPS data acquired in response to the support request, thereby giving the latest available position of the person if the current GPS data is found invalid.

Abstract: Rule-based control for charged-particle beam instrument, typified by a scanning electron microscope, capable of accurately controlling the excitation of plural lenses with a small amount of data. The instrument is equipped with a computer which is programmed with a fuzzy reasoning software inference engine, a pretreatment routine, a posttreatment routine, a rule base in which rules are stored, and a rule editor capable of editing the rules in the rule base. The fuzzy reasoning inference engine infers, by fuzzy reasoning, amounts (numerical values) which control the excitation of the lenses. The pretreatment routine normalizes parameters and enters the normalized variables into the inference engine. The posttreatment routine denormalizes output variables from the fuzzy reasoning inference engine.