Abstract: A high-frequency magnetic field generating device includes two coils arranged with a predetermined gap in parallel with each other, the two coils (a) in between which electron spin resonance material is arranged or (b) arranged at one side from electron spin resonance material; a high-frequency power supply that generates microwave current that flows in the two coils; and a transmission line part connected to the two coils, that sets a current distribution so as to locate the two coils at positions other than a node of a stationary wave.

Abstract: A sliding device configured to perform a sliding process on a surface of an object to be slid includes a sliding part including sliding bodies each having a flat working surface; a first driving mechanism configured to regularly move the sliding bodies in parallel with the working surfaces of the sliding bodies; and a second driving mechanism configured to regularly move the sliding part in parallel with the working surfaces in a direction different from a moving direction by the first driving mechanism while the first driving mechanism moves the sliding bodies. This enables uniform supply of the sliding process material onto the surface of the object to be slid or clean the surface of the object to be slid.

Abstract: An electronic component module includes a first substrate, a coupling electrode and a second substrate. The coupling electrode is provided on a first surface of the first substrate, the coupling electrode is configured to be electromagnetically coupled with a conductor pattern on an antenna member. The second substrate is provided on the first surface of the first substrate, the second substrate covers the coupling electrode. A first thermal resistance between the coupling electrode and the second substrate is smaller than a second thermal resistance between the coupling electrode and the first substrate.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer bearer rotatable in a rotation direction and forming a developing range, a holder, and an entrance seal. The holder has a facing face facing the developer bearer upstream from the developing range in the rotation direction, a support face defining a part of an outer face of the developing device, and a relay face extending from one end of the support face to one end of the relay face connected to the facing face to form an acute tip portion closer to the developing range than the one end. The entrance seal has a free end projecting from the one end as a cantilever, and a length of the entrance seal from a tip of the free end of the entrance seal to the one end is shorter than a length of the relay face from the acute tip portion to the one end.

Abstract: A planarization apparatus comprising a superstrate chuck is provided. The superstrate includes a plurality of inner lands protruding from a surface of the superstrate chuck and a peripheral land protruding from the surface of the superstrate chuck along a periphery of the superstrate chuck and encircling the inner lands therein. The peripheral land has a height smaller than a height of each of the inner lands. The peripheral land has a width sufficiently larger than a width of each of the inner lands such that a pressure leakage through the peripheral land is controlled to be less than a threshold.

Abstract: Provided is an aluminum pigment which is excellent in terms of a sense of compactness, optical characteristics, and dispersion/workability, and which can realize a metallic design. In this aluminum pigment, metallic aluminum particles have an average thickness of 0.02-0.20 ?m, an average aspect ratio (particle cross section length/particle cross section thickness) of 40-100, and a standard deviation of aspect ratio of 15-70.

Abstract: A planarization system, comprising a superstrate chuck including a holding surface configured to hold a superstrate, an inflatable membrane having an inner diameter defining an inner edge, an outer diameter defining an outer edge, and, a midpoint between the inner edge and the outer edge in a radial direction, wherein the inflatable membrane is disposed radially outward of the holding surface of the superstrate chuck, and a purge gas channel disposed radially inward of the midpoint of the inflatable membrane and radially outward of the holding surface of the superstrate chuck.

Abstract: A method of planarizing a substrate comprises dispensing formable material onto a substrate, contacting, at a planarizing station at a first location, a superstrate held by a superstrate chuck with the formable material on the substrate, thereby forming a multilayer structure including the superstrate, a film of the formable material, and the substrate, releasing the superstrate from the superstrate chuck, moving the multilayer structure from the first location to a curing station located at a second location away from the first location, the curing station including an array of light-emitting diodes, and curing the film of the multilayer structure by exposing the film to light emitted from the array of light-emitting diodes.

Abstract: A planarization system, comprising a superstrate chuck including a holding surface configured to hold a superstrate, an inflatable membrane having an inner diameter defining an inner edge, an outer diameter defining an outer edge, and, a midpoint between the inner edge and the outer edge in a radial direction, wherein the inflatable membrane is disposed radially outward of the holding surface of the superstrate chuck, and a purge gas channel disposed radially inward of the midpoint of the inflatable membrane and radially outward of the holding surface of the superstrate chuck.

Abstract: A method of loading a superstrate onto a superstrate chuck includes raising a plurality of pins located radially outward of a substrate chuck from a retracted position to a receiving position, placing the superstrate onto the plurality of pins while the plurality of pins are in the receiving position, and coupling the superstrate with the superstrate chuck while the superstrate is on the plurality of pins.

Abstract: A method of planarizing a substrate comprises dispensing formable material onto a substrate, contacting, at a planarizing station at a first location, a superstrate held by a superstrate chuck with the formable material on the substrate, thereby forming a multilayer structure including the superstrate, a film of the formable material, and the substrate, releasing the superstrate from the superstrate chuck, moving the multilayer structure from the first location to a curing station located at a second location away from the first location, the curing station including an array of light-emitting diodes, and curing the film of the multilayer structure by exposing the film to light emitted from the array of light-emitting diodes.

Abstract: A planarization apparatus comprising a superstrate chuck is provided. The superstrate includes a plurality of inner lands protruding from a surface of the superstrate chuck and a peripheral land protruding from the surface of the superstrate chuck along a periphery of the superstrate chuck and encircling the inner lands therein. The peripheral land has a height smaller than a height of each of the inner lands. The peripheral land has a width sufficiently larger than a width of each of the inner lands such that a pressure leakage through the peripheral land is controlled to be less than a threshold.

Abstract: A measurement device includes a microwave generator, an electron spin resonance member, and an observation system. The microwave generator is configured to generate a microwave. The microwave is configured for an electron spin quantum operation based on a Rabi oscillation. The microwave generator has a coil configured to emit the microwave and an electrostatic capacitor electrically connected in parallel to the coil. The microwave is irradiated to the electron spin resonance member. The observation system is configured to measure a physical quantity in a measured field in response to a state of the electron spin resonance member when the electron spin resonance member is irradiated by the microwave. The coil has first and second ends from which first and second legs continuously extended. The electrostatic capacitor spans the first and second legs and is electrically connected in parallel to the coil.

Abstract: Provided is a method for treating a living body using an electrical stimulator including a base wire having a core wire and an outer winding wire wound around the core wire. An annulus is formed by winding the base wire in a loop shape. A first end of the core wire is electrically connected to a first end of the outer winding wire. A second end of the core wire is connected to a first terminal of an external circuit. A second end of the outer winding wire is connected to a second terminal of the external circuit. The method includes holding the living body or a part of the living body of a subject in the annulus and generating an alternating current in the external circuit for a therapeutically effective time period to apply an electrical stimulation to the living body or the part of the living body.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body including an electrode-stacked portion having first and second internal electrodes that are alternately stacked along a first axis direction, wherein the first internal electrodes include a first inner-layer internal electrode and a first outer-layer internal electrode that is absent at and adjacent to a position corresponding to at least one of four corners of the first inner-layer internal electrode, the second internal electrodes include a second inner-layer internal electrode and a second outer-layer internal electrode that is absent at and adjacent to a position corresponding to at least one of four corners of the second inner-layer internal electrode, and the electrode-stacked portion includes a pair of outer layer portions where the first and second outer-layer internal electrodes are stacked, and an inner layer portion positioned between the outer layer portions and where the first and second inner-layer internal electrodes are stacked.

Abstract: A high-frequency magnetic field generating device includes two coils arranged with a predetermined gap in parallel with each other, the two coils (a) in between which electron spin resonance material is arranged or (b) arranged at one side from electron spin resonance material; a high-frequency power supply that generates microwave current that flows in the two coils; and a transmission line part connected to the two coils, that sets a current distribution so as to locate the two coils at positions other than a node of a stationary wave.

Abstract: An air conditioner including a distributor configured to distribute a fluid to a heat exchanger. The distributor comprises a main pipe; a partition defining a plurality of distribution paths in the main pipe; a first branched pipe inserted into the main pipe as much as first length, linked to a first distribution path of the plurality of distribution paths, connected to a first portion of the heat exchanger; and a second branched pipe inserted into the main pipe as much as second length different from the first length, linked to the first distribution path, connected to a second portion of the heat exchanger. A flow velocity of air exchanging heat at the first portion of the heat exchanger is faster than a flow velocity of air exchanging heat at the second portion of the heat exchanger. The first length is shorter than the second length.

Abstract: A high-frequency magnetic field generating device includes two coils arranged with a predetermined gap in parallel with each other, the two coils (a) in between which electron spin resonance material is arranged or (b) arranged at one side from electron spin resonance material; a high-frequency power supply that generates microwave current that flows in the two coils; and a transmission line part connected to the two coils, that sets a current distribution so as to locate the two coils at positions other than a node of a stationary wave.

Abstract: A method of forming a planarization layer on a substrate is disclosed. The method can include aligning a superstrate with the substrate, where aligning the superstrate with the substrate comprises tuning a diffusing element to a first operational state, dispensing a formable material over the substrate, contacting the formable material over the substrate with the superstrate, tuning the diffusing element to a second operational state, where the first operational state is different from the second operational state, and curing the formable material over the substrate to form a layer over the substrate while the superstrate is contacting the formable material, where curing the formable material can include directing a set of actinic radiation beams to enter the diffusing element at an entering state and exit the diffusing element at an exiting state, and where the entering state is different from the exiting state.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heat pump system comprising an outdoor unit disposed in an outdoor space, a plurality of thermal load units supplied with cool air and hot air, and an intermediate unit disposed between the outdoor unit and the plurality of thermal load units, wherein the intermediate unit is connected to the outdoor unit through refrigerant pipes and connected to the plurality of thermal load units through thermal medium pipes.