Abstract: A straddle electric vehicle comprises a seat on which a rider is seated in a straddle state; right and left foot steps on which the rider puts feet, an electric motor for generating driving power for moving the straddle electric vehicle; a battery unit which is an electric power supply for activating the electric motor; and a battery case for storing the battery unit. The battery case is placed between the steering shaft and the seat in a forward or rearward direction and includes a seat vicinity portion which faces the seat in the forward or rearward direction. The seat vicinity portion is smaller in dimension in a rightward or leftward direction than a portion of the battery case which is other than the seat vicinity portion.

Abstract: An electric vehicle comprises an electric motor which generates driving power for driving a wheel; a battery case accommodating a battery storing DC power to be supplied to the electric motor, in a battery space in an interior of the battery case; and a plurality of electric components electrically connected to the battery and placed above the battery, wherein the plurality of electric components are placed in a plurality of layers, and arranged vertically to overlap with each other when viewed from above.

Abstract: An electric vehicle comprises an electric motor which generates a driving power for driving a wheel; and a battery case accommodating a plurality of batteries storing DC power to be supplied to the electric motor, in a battery space in an interior of the battery case, wherein the battery case has a shape which covers the electric motor above and forward.

Abstract: The CMP apparatus is provided with a polishing unit 3; a cleaning unit 4; a load/unload unit for transferring substrates to the polishing unit 3 and receiving substrates from the cleaning unit 4; a wafer transporting unit; and a control section 5 for controlling the timing of loading wafers into the CMP apparatus. The control section 5 creates a time table correlating treatment ending times or scheduled treatment ending times in polishing sections, cleaning sections and transporting sections for each plurality of wafers to be loaded into the CMP apparatus and controls the timing of loading the plurality of wafers into the CMP apparatus on the basis of the time table, so that a standby state does not occur in a period from when the wafers are loaded into the CMP apparatus to when cleaning treatment is completed.

Abstract: There is provided a sheet conveyance apparatus including: a loader unit loading sheets, a feeding unit feeding the sheets from the loader unit, a separating unit separating and conveying the sheets one by one, a detecting unit detecting the sheets, and a controller. The controller is configured to: measure a time from instructing the feeding unit for operation of feeding one of the sheets to the detecting unit detecting that sheet, and determine that there is a decrease in a capability of the feeding unit or the separating unit in a case that the measured time does not fit into a time needed to convey the sheet from a position of starting a normal operation of feeding the sheet to the position of the detecting unit.

Abstract: An upper end of a tubular member surrounding a common pipe line is closed by a lid member. The lid member has an opening formed therein for supplying liquids to adjacent the rotation center on the back surface of a wafer. Deionized water supplied at normal temperature to the interior of the tubular member, after serving to cool the common pipe line, flows out of a lower end of the tubular member.

Abstract: A sheet feeding mechanism is configured to feed a sheet, which has an actuator having a contact member configured to contact a sheet being fed, and a shaft configured to support the contact member, the shaft having a first end and a second end in a longitudinal direction, a first supporting part configured to support a first end portion of the shaft, a second supporting part configured to support a second end portion of the shaft, a detection unit configured to detect a position of the contact member, and an elastic supporting member configured to holds the first end portion of the shaft such that the shaft is displaceable in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: The present invention improves the accuracy of detecting abnormality in a substrate processing apparatus. A failure detection apparatus 520 is provided with a data acquisition part 522 used to collect data detected by sensors 270-1 to 270-a, 370-1 to 370-b and 470-1 to 470-c disposed in a CMP apparatus. In addition, the failure detection apparatus 520 is provided with a determination part 524 used to read recipe data from a recipe storage part 512, to compare the recipe data thus read with the data collected by a data acquisition part 522, thereby determining that abnormality is present in the CMP apparatus if the two data items differ.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus, including: an image forming unit; a sheet detector positioned on a sheet conveyance path at an upstream side of the image forming unit; a conveyance belt; an image detector; and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: detecting a front end of the sheet; forming a mark image to extend over the conveyance belt and the sheet; detecting the mark image; measuring a mark conveyance time; obtaining a time elapsed based on the mark conveyance time; and forming the image when the obtained time passes from the front end of the sheet is detected.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus, including: an image forming unit; a sheet detector positioned on a sheet conveyance path at an upstream side of the image forming unit; a conveyance belt; an image detector; and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: detecting a front end of the sheet; forming a mark image to extend over the conveyance belt and the sheet; detecting the mark image; measuring a mark conveyance time; obtaining a time elapsed based on the mark conveyance time; and forming the image when the obtained time passes from the front end of the sheet is detected.

Abstract: Damage to a substrate in a substrate processing apparatus is effectively suppressed. The substrate processing apparatus includes a polishing unit polishing a substrate, a cleaning unit cleaning and drying the substrate polished by the polishing unit, and a conveying unit conveying the substrate in the polishing unit and the cleaning unit. The substrate processing apparatus further includes a measuring section 5A measuring a standby time of each substrate for which the substrate stands by in each of the polishing unit, the cleaning unit and the conveying unit, and a determining section 5B comparing the standby time measured by the measuring section 5A and a set time set for each unit independently and determining that an error occurs if the standby time exceeds the set time.

Abstract: It is an object of the embodiment of the invention to enhance the work efficiency of a substrate transfer test between a plurality of units. A test control section (CPU) which is provided in a loading/unloading unit 2 performs a substrate transfer test for the loading/unloading unit 2 alone by receiving a wafer mounted on a substrate table 2300 or 2400 which is installed outside the loading/unloading unit 2 and transporting the wafer into the loading/unloading unit 2 by a transport mechanism or transporting a wafer placed in the loading/unloading unit 2 to a substrate table 2200 and mounting the wafer on the substrate table 2200 by the transport mechanism while the loading/unloading unit 2 is not assembled together with the cleaning unit and the polishing unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveyer, a main body, a movable unit movable with respect to a guide position at which the sheet is guided, a position detector outputting a position detection signal, and a controller configured to determine whether the movable unit is in the guide position based on the position detection signal, perform a feeding execution process in which controlling the conveyer to feed the sheet by a feeding amount and stop the sheet if the sheet is in a feeding area and if determining that the movable unit is not in the guide position, and perform a feeding inexecution process in which controlling the conveyer not to feed the sheet by the feeding amount and stop the sheet if the sheet is in the feeding area and if determining that the movable unit is in the guide position.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and pharmaceutical use thereof.

Abstract: A ground leakage detector for detecting a ground leakage in an electric vehicle including a battery, and a charging connector which is electrically connectable to a terminal member formed at one end of an outside electric wire through which electric power is supplied from outside to the battery, includes a connector connection section electrically connectable to the charging connector; a contactor configured to contact a vehicle body ground location in the electric vehicle; and a detecting circuit for detecting whether or not there is a ground leakage from the battery to the vehicle body ground location, based on a current flowing between the connector connection section and the contactor.

Abstract: A straddle electric vehicle comprises a battery case for storing a battery unit; an inverter for converting DC power stored in the battery unit into AC power; a plurality of electric components connected to the battery unit and the inverter; and an electric motor for generating driving power for rotating a drive wheel, by the AC power generated by conversion in the inverter; wherein the plurality of electric components are stored in the battery case such that the electric components are placed above the battery unit.

Abstract: A straddle electric vehicle comprises a seat on which a rider is seated in a straddle state; right and left foot steps on which the rider puts feet, an electric motor for generating driving power for moving the straddle electric vehicle; a battery unit which is an electric power supply for activating the electric motor; and a battery case for storing the battery unit. The battery case is placed between the steering shaft and the seat in a forward or rearward direction and includes a seat vicinity portion which faces the seat in the forward or rearward direction. The seat vicinity portion is smaller in dimension in a rightward or leftward direction than a portion of the battery case which is other than the seat vicinity portion.

Abstract: A paper particle removing device is provided with a paper particle removing roller configured to contact a printing sheet to capture paper particles on the printing sheet, a scraping member arranged adjacent to the paper particle removing roller and configured to contact the paper particle removing roller to scrape the paper particles, a paper particle container arranged on a scraping member side with respect to a position where the scraping member contacts the paper particle removing roller, and configured to collect the paper particles scraped by the scraping member, and a negatively-charged member arranged on the scraping member side with respect to a position where the paper particle removing roller contacts the scraping member and having a relative tendency in a triboelectric series to be negatively charged relative to the paper particles, the negatively-charged member inducing the paper particles scraped by the scraping member toward the paper particle container.

Abstract: A compound of the following general formula [I]: wherein each symbol has the same meaning as defined herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof, and a pharmaceutical use of the same in treating organ transplant rejection, graft versus host reaction after transplantation, autoimmune disease, allergic disease and chronic myeloproliferative disease.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveyer, a main body, a movable unit movable with respect to a guide position at which the sheet is guided, a position detector outputting a position detection signal, and a controller configured to determine whether the movable unit is in the guide position based on the position detection signal, perform a feeding execution process in which controlling the conveyer to feed the sheet by a feeding amount and stop the sheet if the sheet is in a feeding area and if determining that the movable unit is not in the guide position, and perform a feeding inexecution process in which controlling the conveyer not to feed the sheet by the feeding amount and stop the sheet if the sheet is in the feeding area and if determining that the movable unit is in the guide position.