Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus of a semiconductor device includes: a stage; a bonding head, including a mounting tool, a tool heater, and a lifting and lowering mechanism; and a controller performing bonding processing. The controller performs, in the bonding processing: first processing in which, after a chip is brought into contact with a substrate, as heating of the chip is started, the chip is pressurized against the substrate; distortion elimination processing in which, after the first processing and before melting of a bump, the lifting and lowering mechanism is driven in a lifting direction, thereby eliminating distortion of the bonding head; and second processing in which, after the distortion elimination processing, position control is performed on the lifting and lowering mechanism so as to cancel thermal expansion and contraction of the bonding head, thereby maintaining a gap amount at a specified target value.

Abstract: This semiconductor device manufacturing device comprises: a stage; a bonding head; a copying mechanism provided on the bonding head; and a controller that executes the copying process to adjust a facing surface to be parallel to a reference plane by having the facing surface, which is a holding surface or a chip end face, follow the reference plane 110, which is a planar surface of the stage or a substrate. In the copying process, the controller moves the bonding head relative to the surface direction of the reference plane with the facing surface left abutting the reference plane in a state with the copying mechanism switched to a free state, until the axial direction position of the bonding head reaches a stipulated reference position, and when the axial direction position reaches the reference position, switches the copying mechanism to a locked state.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention includes, in antibacterial polymer particles, a crosslinked copolymer having a structural unit derived from a monofunctional monomer having an antibacterial group, and a structural unit derived from a polyfunctional monomer. A water absorption capacity of the antibacterial polymer particles is 3 g/g or more.

Abstract: A simulation system includes circuitry configured to: determine placement of a robot with respect to another object in a virtual space, based on a placement constraint applied to the robot for executing a plurality of tasks; generate a path representing a trajectory of at least a portion of the robot or a tool operated by the robot during the tasks, based on a spatial relationship between the determined placement of the robot and the other object that satisfies the placement constraint; execute an operation program including the generated path in the virtual space in which the robot and the other object are placed; and check whether the robot interferes with the other object, based on the spatial relationship between the determined placement of the robot and the other object along the generated path in the virtual space, as a result of executing the tasks in the operation program.

Abstract: A technique simulator for training in a technique using a catheter includes: a flow path configured to contain a liquid that imitates blood; a liquid flow generation member configured to generate flow of the liquid; and a catheter insertion port configured to allow the catheter to be interposed into the flow path. The flow path includes: a bifurcated portion that is located downstream of the catheter insertion port and is to be bifurcated into at least two flow paths, and a plurality of bifurcated flow paths provided downstream of the bifurcated portion. The plurality of bifurcated flow paths includes a first bifurcated flow path and a second bifurcated flow path. The technique simulator further comprises a pressure difference generation member configured to cause a pressure difference to be generated between a downstream side of the first bifurcated flow path and a downstream side of the second bifurcated flow path.

Abstract: A programming assistance device includes a program storage unit that stores a first program comprising a first set of time series jobs and stores a second program comprising a second set of time series jobs. Each job of the first program defines at least one operation of a first robot, and the first program is configured to be performed along a shared time line. Additionally, each job of the second program defines at least one operation of a second robot, and the second program is configured to be performed along the shared time line.

Abstract: A current sensor includes a magnetic detector and a first soft magnetic body. The magnetic detector is configured to be subjected to a magnetic flux that is to be generated when a current flows through a conductor along a first axis direction, the magnetic flux being in a second axis direction. The first soft magnetic body includes a first portion, a second portion disposed between the conductor and the first portion, and a third portion magnetically coupling the first portion and the second portion to each other. The first soft magnetic body is spaced from both of the conductor and the magnetic detector, with the first portion, the second portion, and the third portion surrounding the magnetic detector along a first plane orthogonal to the second axis direction.

Abstract: An optical system includes a first lens disposed closest to an enlargement conjugate position, a second lens adjacent to the first lens, a diaphragm disposed closer to a reduction conjugate position than the second lens, and a final lens disposed closest to a reduction conjugate position. Each of the first lens, the second lens, and the final lens has an aspherical surface. The aspherical surface of each of the first and second lenses has an inflection point. An imaging magnification is different between a first area of the optical system and a second area on a periphery side of the first area.

Abstract: An optical system includes, in order from an enlargement conjugate side to a reduction conjugate side, a front unit including a plurality of lenses, an aperture stop, and a rear unit including a plurality of lenses. A projection characteristic of the optical system representing a relationship between a half angle of view and an image height on an image plane satisfies a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An optical system includes, in order from an enlargement conjugate side to a reduction conjugate side, a front unit including three or more lenses, a diaphragm, and a rear unit including a plurality of lenses. The front unit includes a first positive lens closest to an enlargement conjugate position, and a second positive lens. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A planning system includes flow generating circuitry, confirmation circuitry, and update circuitry. The flow generating circuitry is configured to generate a task flow which includes work tasks predetermined based on a concurrent execution constraint with respect to concurrent execution of tasks performed by robots and connection tasks to be connected to the work tasks. The confirmation circuitry is configured to determine whether at least one of the robots interferes with an object in the connection tasks. The update circuitry is configured to update the concurrent execution constraint when the at least one of the robots is determined to interfere with the object.

Abstract: An apparatus (10) for producing a semiconductor device comprises a stage (16), a bonding head (14), a bonding tool (24) and a first camera (26) that are attached to the bonding head (14), and a controller (18), the apparatus (10) moreover being such that the controller (18) is configured to execute for each of one or more points: a process of mounting an inspection chip (130) on a mounting surface; a process of acquiring, as an inspection image (44), an image of the mounting surface after the inspection chip (130) has been mounted thereon captured by the first camera (26); a process of calculating, as an area correction amount C, a correction amount for a camera offset amount Ocm on the basis of the position of the inspection chip (130) in the inspection image (44); and a process of associating the calculated area correction amount C and the position of a discretionary point and then storing the associated information in a storage device.

Abstract: A bonding apparatus and method for correcting movement amount of bonding head are provided. The bonding apparatus performs: mark correction of imaging a reference mark using a position detection camera at every prescribed timing and correcting the amount of movement of a bonding head on the basis of the amount of positional deviation between the position of the imaged reference mark and a reference position of the position detection camera; and actual position correction of detecting the actual bonding position of a semiconductor element after bonding using the position detection camera at every timing when the cumulative value of the amounts of correction of the mark correction from the previous actual position correction exceeds a prescribed first threshold and correcting the amount of movement of the bonding head on the basis of the amount of positional deviation between the detected actual bonding position and a target bonding position.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor for detecting magnetism generated from a conductor in which a current flows in a first direction includes a magnetic detection unit capable of detecting the magnetism, a magnetization core, and a magnetic shield. The magnetization core includes a first core section, which is substantially parallel to the first direction, and a second core section and third core section, which are each continuous from both end portions of the first core section in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. The second core section and the third core section each extend from an end portion of the first core section to follow a third direction that is orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction. The magnetic detection unit has a sensitivity direction in the second direction and is positioned in a core gap sandwiched between the vicinity of the end portion of the second core section and the vicinity of the end portion of the third core section in the third direction.

Abstract: A program generation system according to an example includes circuitry configured to: set multiple kinds of candidate postures of a robot in a connection area between a work path that is a trajectory of the robot in a task and an air-cut path that is a trajectory of the robot connecting tasks; evaluate an operation program including the work path and the air-cut path while changing a posture of the robot in the connection area among the multiple kinds of candidate postures; determine one of the multiple kinds of candidate postures as the posture of the robot in the connection area based on an evaluation result in the evaluating; and generate the operation program.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a peptide compound including a step of using a condensed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compound represented by Formula (1); a protective group-forming reagent including the compound; and the compound. In Formula (1), a ring A represents a condensed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ring, YA's each independently represent —OH, —NHR, —SH, or —X0, where X0 represents Cl, Br, or I, RA and RC each independently represent an aliphatic hydrocarbon group or an organic group having an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, RBs' each independently represent a monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group, a (1+c)-valent aromatic group, or a (1+c)-valent heteroaromatic group, where, in a case where both a and c is 0, RB is a monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group, and the number of carbon atoms in at least one aliphatic hydrocarbon group is 12 or more.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a peptide compound including a step of using a compound represented by Formula (1); a protective group-forming reagent including the compound; and the compound. At least one of R1 to R8 or Y2 has RA, RA represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group or an organic group having an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, and the number of carbon atoms in at least one aliphatic hydrocarbon group is 12 or more. However, RA does not have a silyl group and a hydrocarbon group having a silyloxy structure.

Abstract: There is provided a method of producing a polymerizable composition that includes a first polymerizable monomer; and a second polymerizable monomer, a polymer of the second polymerizable monomer, or both, the second polymerizable monomer, the polymer of the second polymerizable monomer, or the both being dispersed in the first polymerizable monomer, the method of producing a polymerizable composition includes dissolving the first polymerizable monomer; the second polymerizable monomer, the polymer of the second polymerizable monomer, or the both in a solvent to obtain a solution in a first step; and evaporating the solvent from the solution in a second step, wherein the first polymerizable monomer is a liquid, and wherein the second polymerizable monomer is a solid.

Abstract: [Object] To reduce power consumption even more. [Solution] Provided is a communication control device including a communication necessity information acquisition unit configured to acquire communication necessity information indicating necessity to communicate with an external device, and a drive control unit configured to control drive of a first communication unit and a second communication unit on a basis of the acquired communication necessity information, the first communication unit communicating with the external device using a first communication mode, the second communication unit communicating with the external device using a second communication mode capable of transferring data at a rate higher than the first communication mode.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a peptide compound including a step of using an aromatic heterocyclic compound represented by Formula (1) represented by Formula (1); a protective group-forming reagent including the compound; and the compound. In Formula (1), a ring A represents an aromatic heterocyclic ring, YA's each independently represent —OH, —NHR, —SH, or —X0, where X0 represents Cl, Br, or I, RA and RC each independently represent an aliphatic hydrocarbon group or an organic group having an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, RBs' each independently represent a monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group, a (1+c)-valent aromatic group, or a (1+c)-valent heteroaromatic group, where, in a case where both a and c is 0, RB is a monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group, and the number of carbon atoms in at least one aliphatic hydrocarbon group of RA, RB, or RC is 12 or more.