Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing container; a stage arranged inside the processing container to place a substrate to be processed on the stage; a plasma excitation antenna arranged above the processing container; a coil holder for holding the plasma excitation antenna; and a radio-frequency power supply for supplying radio-frequency power to the plasma excitation antenna. The coil holder includes a plurality of beam-like members arranged radially to protrude outward from a center of the coil holder, and a clamp-like member attached to each of the plurality of beam-like members and suspended downward from each of the plurality of beam-like members. The clamp-like member has an upper end supported by each beam-like member with a screw member and is configured to move in a pendulum manner, and a gripper configured to grip and hold the plasma excitation antenna is formed in a lower end of the clamp-like member.

Abstract: A robot includes an articulated arm; and a base unit to which the articulated arm is operably coupled. The base unit includes: a rotating portion; an actuator mounted on the rotating portion and configured to rotate the rotating portion about a first axis; an arm connector attached to a first portion of the rotating portion. The articulated arm is connected to the arm connector to swing about a second axis; and a rib straddling the actuator and connecting the arm connector to a second portion of the rotating portion. The actuator is located between the first portion and the second portion of the rotating portion.

Abstract: An active oxygen supply apparatus includes a casing, a plurality of plasma generating devices provided in an inside of the casing and configured to generate an induced flow containing ozone, an ultraviolet light source provided in the inside of the casing and configured to irradiate the induced flow containing the ozone with ultraviolet light, and a shielding plate provided in the inside of the casing and configured to shield the ultraviolet light irradiated to an outside of the casing through an opening portion of the casing. An active oxygen generated by irradiating the induced flow containing the ozone with the ultraviolet light from the ultraviolet light source supplies to the outside of the casing through the opening portion of the casing.

Abstract: An active oxygen supply device that is a plasma actuator equipped with a plasma generator and an ultraviolet light source in a housing having at least one opening, the plasma generator being provided with a first electrode and a second electrode with a dielectric in-between and creating an induced flow that contains ozone by applying a voltage between the two electrodes, in which the plasma actuator is positioned so that the induced flow flows outside the housing from an opening, and the ultraviolet light source irradiates the induced flow with ultraviolet rays and generates active oxygen in the induced flow; a device for conducting treatment by active oxygen; and a method for conducting treatment by active oxygen.

Abstract: A sterilization device or the like is equipped with a plasma generator and an ultraviolet light source, wherein the plasma generator is a plasma actuator provided with a first electrode and a second electrode with a dielectric in-between, and in which an induced flow including ozone is generated by application of a voltage between the two electrodes, the ultraviolet light source is arranged so as to be able to irradiate the surface of an object to be sterilized, and the plasma actuator is arranged so that the induced flow is supplied to said surface.

Abstract: A robot includes an articulated arm; and a base unit to which the articulated arm is operably coupled. The base unit includes: a rotating portion; an actuator mounted on the rotating portion and configured to rotate the rotating portion about a first axis; an arm connector attached to a first portion of the rotating portion. The articulated arm is connected to the arm connector to swing about a second axis; and a rib straddling the actuator and connecting the arm connector to a second portion of the rotating portion. The actuator is located between the first portion and the second portion of the rotating portion.

Abstract: Provided is a fission product processing method for selectively transmuting only a long-lived radionuclide from fission products. The method for processing radioactive waste includes the step of extracting, from the radioactive waste, the isotopes without isotope separation, the isotope elements including radionuclides of fission products and having a common atomic number, and the step of irradiating the isotopes with high-energy particles generated by an accelerator to produce nuclear transmutation of a long-lived radionuclide of the radionuclides into a short-lived radionuclide with a short half-life or a stable nuclide re-utilizable as a resource.

Abstract: Provided is a fission product processing method for selectively transmuting only a long-lived radionuclide from fission products. The method for processing radioactive waste includes the step of extracting, from the radioactive waste, the isotopes without isotope separation, the isotope elements including radionuclides of fission products and having a common atomic number, and the step of irradiating the isotopes with high-energy particles generated by an accelerator to produce nuclear transmutation of a long-lived radionuclide of the radionuclides into a short-lived radionuclide with a short half-life or a stable nuclide re-utilizable as a resource.

Abstract: Provided are: an identifying process unit that calculates a product set of rendering instructions for objects included in a processing-target page and rendering instructions for objects included in a page different from the processing-target page; a blank sheet determining unit that identifies a body object and that determines whether the body object has been identified, the body object being obtained by excluding the objects corresponding to the rendering instructions included in the product set from objects included in the processing-target page; and a RIP processing unit that generates raster data after excluding a page for which a determination has been made that the body object has not been identified.

Abstract: A printing control apparatus includes: an intermediate data generating unit that generates a piece of intermediate data; a judgment unit that, using attribute information, judges whether a piece of object data is a bitmap image; a first color/monochrome judgment unit that makes a color/monochrome judgment using the attribute information; and a second color/monochrome judgment unit that further makes the color/monochrome judgment for each individual pixel when the piece of object data is a bitmap image and is judged to be in color by the first color/monochrome judgment unit.

Abstract: Provided are: an identifying process unit that calculates a product set of rendering instructions for objects included in a processing-target page and rendering instructions for objects included in a page different from the processing-target page; a blank sheet determining unit that identifies a body object and that determines whether the body object has been identified, the body object being obtained by excluding the objects corresponding to the rendering instructions included in the product set from objects included in the processing-target page; and a RIP processing unit that generates raster data after excluding a page for which a determination has been made that the body object has not been identified.

Abstract: A printing control apparatus includes: an intermediate data generating unit that generates a piece of intermediate data; a judgment unit that, using attribute information, judges whether a piece of object data is a bitmap image; a first color/monochrome judgment unit that makes a color/monochrome judgment using the attribute information; and a second color/monochrome judgment unit that further makes the color/monochrome judgment for each individual pixel when the piece of object data is a bitmap image and is judged to be in color by the first color/monochrome judgment unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that prints a plurality of manuscript data onto sheets and folds the printed sheets into N (2?N) equally sized divisions is equipped with: a manuscript size obtaining section that obtains sizes of the manuscript data; a reference size obtaining section that obtains a first reference size, set based on a unit size equal to the size of the sheets divided into N divisions, and M reference sizes, set based on the unit size multiplied by M (2?M?N); and an arrangement setting section that arranges manuscript data of the reference size or less at single surfaces from among a plurality of printing surfaces of the sheets formed by the sheets being folded, and arranges manuscript data of an (M?1)th reference size or greater and an Mth reference size or less at M continuous surfaces from among the plurality of surfaces.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that prints a plurality of manuscript data onto sheets and folds the printed sheets into N (2?N) equally sized divisions is equipped with: a manuscript size obtaining section that obtains sizes of the manuscript data; a reference size obtaining section that obtains a first reference size, set based on a unit size equal to the size of the sheets divided into N divisions, and M reference sizes, set based on the unit size multiplied by M (2?M?N); and an arrangement setting section that arranges manuscript data of the reference size or less at single surfaces from among a plurality of printing surfaces of the sheets formed by the sheets being folded, and arranges manuscript data of an (M?1)th reference size or greater and an Mth reference size or less at M continuous surfaces from among the plurality of surfaces.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a charging member in which a toner, an additive for use in the toner, or the like is hard to adhere to the surface even under repeated use for a long time, and hence the charging and image output are made stable for a long time even if the charging member is used in the DC contact charging method, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having the charging member. The present invention provides a charging member comprising a support, a conductive elastic layer formed on the support, and a surface layer formed on the conductive elastic layer, characterized in that the surface layer contains a polysiloxane having a fluoroalkyl group and an oxyalkylene group, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having the charging member.

Abstract: A charging member has a surface layer. The surface layer contains a polysiloxane having a first unit, a second unit and a third unit each of which is represented by a specific formula. The ratio of the sum of the mole numbers of the first and second units to the sum of the mole numbers of the first to third units is in a specific range.

Abstract: A charging member is provided in which a toner, an additive for use in the toner, or the like is hard to adhere to the surface even under repeated use for a long time, and hence the charging and image output are made stable for a long time even if the charging member is used in the DC contact charging method. Also provided are a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having the charging member. The charging member includes a support, a conductive elastic layer formed on the support, and a surface layer formed on the conductive elastic layer, characterized in that the surface layer contains a polysiloxane having a fluoroalkyl group and an oxyalkylene group, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having the charging member.

Abstract: A charging member is provided in which a toner, an additive for use in the toner, or the like is hard to adhere to the surface even under repeated use for a long time, and hence the charging and image output are made stable for a long time even if the charging member is used in the DC contact charging method. Also provided are a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having the charging member. The charging member includes a support, a conductive elastic layer formed on the support, and a surface layer formed on the conductive elastic layer, characterized in that the surface layer contains a polysiloxane having a fluoroalkyl group and an oxyalkylene group, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having the charging member.

Abstract: A nitric acid solution containing ions of any one element selected from the group consisting of rare element FP of Ru, Rh and Pd and a rare element of Re is electrolytically reduced by electrolyzing at a constant current to thereby deposit the ions of the element on an electrode. Alternatively, a nitric acid solution containing ions of two or more elements selected from the group consisting of rare element FP of Ru, Rh and Pd and a rare element of Re is electrolytically reduced by electrolyzing at a constant current to thereby collectively deposit the ions of the elements on an electrode. Alkaline water is electrolyzed by using the thus obtained electrodeposit electrode directly as it is as a catalytic electrode to efficiently generate hydrogen. Thus, a clean and sustaining energy system integrating the nuclear energy with the fuel cell power generation is provided.

Abstract: A charging member has a surface layer. The surface layer contains a polysiloxane having a first unit, a second unit and a third unit each of which is represented by a specific formula. The ratio of the sum of the mole numbers of the first and second units to the sum of the mole numbers of the first to third units is in a specific range.