Abstract: An image forming apparatus, a system, and a method. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming engine to form an image on a recording medium, interrupts an image formation by the image forming engine in response to a malfunction, detects a recording medium on which the image formation is interrupted, and notifies an external device of a detection result of the recording medium.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hot-melt coating agent that is excellent in bubble-suppression properties during coating, that is cured in a short period of time after coating, and that is excellent in tack-free properties and bleed-out resistance properties. The present invention provides a hot-melt coating agent for a component-mounted electronic circuit board that contains a thermoplastic resin (A) and a liquid softener (B); and that has a melt viscosity at 160° C. (?1) of 20000 mPa·s or less and a melt viscosity at 180° C. (?2) of 10000 mPa·s or less, wherein the ratio of the melt viscosity at 160° C. (?1) to the melt viscosity at 180° C. (?2) (?1/?2) is 1.0 to 5.0.

Abstract: There is provided an air-conditioning apparatus including an auxiliary power supply that, when a voltage from an overhead line extending over sections powered by different power sources is stepped down with a transformer, converts the voltage into a low-voltage DC voltage and that, when a voltage from the overhead line is a DC voltage, is directly fed with the voltage and converts it into the low-voltage DC voltage that is the same as the converted DC voltage, and further including an inverter device that converts the DC voltage from the auxiliary power supply into an AC voltage and that supplies the AC voltage to a drive unit of a refrigeration cycle apparatus.

Abstract: An outdoor unit disposed under a floor of a vehicle and including a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger serving as a condenser during a cooling operation, an indoor unit disposed at a ceiling portion of the vehicle, including an indoor heat exchanger serving as an evaporator during the cooling operation, and connected to the outdoor unit by refrigerant pipes, and an inverter unit including a cooling heat exchanger serving as an evaporator, an air-conditioning inverter device, and a cooling air-sending device sucking outdoor air for heat exchange by the cooling heat exchanger and cooling the inverter device by cooled air obtained by the heat exchange are provided; and the cooling heat exchanger is connected in parallel to the outdoor unit by refrigerant pipes.

Abstract: An outdoor unit disposed under a floor of a vehicle and including a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger serving as a condenser during a cooling operation, an indoor unit disposed at a ceiling portion of the vehicle, including an indoor heat exchanger serving as an evaporator during the cooling operation, and connected to the outdoor unit by refrigerant pipes, and an inverter unit including a cooling heat exchanger serving as an evaporator, an air-conditioning inverter device, and a cooling air-sending device sucking outdoor air for heat exchange by the cooling heat exchanger and cooling the inverter device by cooled air obtained by the heat exchange are provided; and the cooling heat exchanger is connected in parallel to the outdoor unit by refrigerant pipes.

Abstract: There is provided an air-conditioning apparatus including an auxiliary power supply that, when a voltage from an overhead line extending over sections powered by different power sources is stepped down with a transformer, converts the voltage into a low-voltage DC voltage and that, when a voltage from the overhead line is a DC voltage, is directly fed with the voltage and converts it into the low-voltage DC voltage that is the same as the converted DC voltage, and further including an inverter device that converts the DC voltage from the auxiliary power supply into an AC voltage and that supplies the AC voltage to a drive unit of a refrigeration cycle apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a controller configured to generate a first list of measurement points arranged symmetrically with respect to a center of a shot region along a direction of scanning at a predetermined pitch, and a control by the controller includes a first control which causes a measurement device to measure a position of a surface with respect to each measurement point included in the first list, and a second control which causes the measurement device to measure the position with respect to each measurement point included in a second list obtained by excluding, from the first list, at least one of a measurement point with respect to which measurement is performed last in a first shot region and a measurement point with respect to which measurement is performed first in a second shot region next to the first shot region.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a controller configured to generate a first list of measurement points arranged symmetrically with respect to a center of a shot region along a direction of scanning at a predetermined pitch, and a control by the controller includes a first control which causes a measurement device to measure a position of a surface with respect to each measurement point included in the first list, and a second control which causes the measurement device to measure the position with respect to each measurement point included in a second list obtained by excluding, from the first list, at least one of a measurement point with respect to which measurement is performed last in a first shot region and a measurement point with respect to which measurement is performed first in a second shot region next to the first shot region.

Abstract: In a scroll compressor, a thrust ring is mounted between a movable-side flat plate part of a movable scroll and a housing. An upper surface of the thrust ring slides relative to a lower surface of the movable-side flat plate part and supports a thrust load from the movable scroll. A resinous coating is formed on the upper surface of the thrust ring which slides relative to the movable-side flat plate part. The resinous coating is composed primarily of fluorocarbon resin and polyamide-imide resin. The component percentage of the polyamide-imide resin in the primary component of the resinous coating is set, such that it is not less than 65% by mass nor more than 85% by mass.

Abstract: With respect to each of a plurality of shots on a substrate, a line or surface is calculated which approximates a plurality of positions of the surface of the substrate detected by a detector with respect to a plurality of places, and the difference between the position of the surface detected by the detector and the position of the line or surface in the direction of the optical axis of a projection optical system is calculated with respect to each of the plurality of places. With respect to each of the plurality of places, the differences are averaged over the plurality of shots to determine an offset value.

Abstract: With respect to each of a plurality of shots on a substrate, a line or surface is calculated which approximates a plurality of positions of the surface of the substrate detected by a detector with respect to a plurality of places, and the difference between the position of the surface detected by the detector and the position of the line or surface in the direction of the optical axis of a projection optical system is calculated with respect to each of the plurality of places. With respect to each of the plurality of places, the differences are averaged over the plurality of shots to determine an offset value.

Abstract: In a scroll compressor, a thrust ring is mounted between a movable-side flat plate part of a movable scroll and a housing. An upper surface of the thrust ring slides relative to a lower surface of the movable-side flat plate part and supports a thrust load from the movable scroll. A resinous coating is formed on the upper surface of the thrust ring which slides relative to the movable-side flat plate part. The resinous coating is composed primarily of fluorocarbon resin and polyamide-imide resin. The component percentage of the polyamide-imide resin in the primary component of the resinous coating is set, such that it is not less than 65% by mass nor more than 85% by mass.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes a measurement device for measuring a distortion of an image of a reticle formed on a substrate by scanning exposure, a calculation device for calculating a position compensation parameter for each distortion, by separating the measured distortion into a symmetrical component and an asymmetrical component, and a control device for controlling scanning of either the reticle or the substrate based on the position compensation parameter calculated by the calculation device.

Abstract: In order to compensate a distortion in each shot of scanning exposure with a high degree of accuracy, distortion data between a reticle image formed on a reticle and a transfer image transferred onto a substrate, which is generated in each shot at set scanning speed, is set in shot unit (S601, S602), and a compensation driving value is calculated based on the set distortion data (S603). The distortion data is compensated by the calculated compensation driving value, and positioning of the reticle and/or the substrate is controlled in shot unit (S604, S605).

Abstract: A scroll compressor comprises an operating state detection part (27) detecting an operating state, a variable-speed motor (28), a control part (26) and an unloading mechanism (12) serving as capacity control means. The control part (26) controls operation of the unloading mechanism (12) and the rotational frequency of the motor (28) in response to the operating state detected by the operating state detection part (27). An air conditioner comprises the aforementioned scroll compressor, a condenser (23), an expansion valve (24) and an evaporator (25).

Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes an illumination system for illuminating, with pulse light, a reticle having a pattern formed thereon, a reticle stage for scanning the reticle, a projection system for projecting the pattern onto a wafer, a wafer stage for scanning the wafer, an interface into which information related to the reticle is inputted and a controller for changing illumination conditions on the basis of the information inputted to the interface. The reticle is illuminated with the pulse light while the reticle and the wafer are scanned, by which the pattern of the reticle is transferred to the wafer sequentially.

Abstract: A method of exposing a substrate to a pattern of a reticle by synchronously scanning the reticle and the substrate in a direction relative to a slit-shaped illumination area which is formed on the reticle. The method includes steps of providing a reticle on which first and second patterns are formed along the direction, with a space therebetween, exposing a substrate to the first and second patterns of the reticle under different exposure conditions in one scanning process and changing over the exposure conditions when the illumination area exists in the space on the reticle during the one scanning process.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus that selects an exposure method that matches exposure conditions, from among a plurality of exposure methods includes an exposure method determining unit for switching between exposure methods and determining an exposure method taking into account at least two of a plurality of evaluation item values calculated based on the exposure conditions, and the exposure method determining unit switches among constant speed scanning exposure method, accelerated/decelerated scanning exposure method and static exposure method.

Abstract: A file managing method includes subdividing an original file including records, each record including fields, for storing blocks, each block including fields subdivided from more than one of the records; coupling the blocks to into groups of blocks; rearranging the groups of blocks, and, after rearranging the groups of blocks, coupling the groups of blocks to each other to produce a transposed file; and accessing the fields from the transposed file, at random.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes a light source for providing pulse light, a mask scanning machanism for scanning a mask having a pattern, a wafer scanning mechanism for scanning a wafer onto which the pattern is to be projected, wherein the mask scanning machanism and the wafer scanning mechanism serve to scan the mask and the wafer in a timed relation so that the mask is illuminated while superposing portions of an illumination region defined by the pulse light and being narrower than the pattern such that the pattern is lithographically transferred onto the wafer, and a scan speed determining system for determining scan speed of the mask and the wafer, the scan speed being variable on the basis of a tolerance ratio of exposure non-uniformness.