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 liquid ejection device includes: a head unit having at least one nozzle and configured to eject a liquid containing a solvent and a cleaning agent from the nozzle; and a liquid transport tube configured to transport the liquid to the head unit. A content of the cleaning agent in the liquid is 1% by weight or more. The liquid is ejected from the head unit in a continuous flow, and the continuous flow is converted into droplets to collide with the object in a form of droplets.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a camera module and an electronic device that can improve heat dissipation. A movable member has an image sensor on a front side and is movable in a direction along an imaging surface of the image sensor, the fixed member is fixed with a predetermined gap interposed between the fixed member and the movable member on a back side of the movable member, and at least one heat dissipating member is fixed to at least one of the fixed member and the movable member and is in contact with the other in the gap. The present disclosure is applicable to a camera module of a sensor-shift system.

Abstract: Provided are a thin-film separator for a power storage device, the separator having high strength and reduced clogging, and a power storage device separator that provides high strength, high level of safety, and high dimensional stability at high temperature, and that can be formed in a thin film. One aspect provides a power storage device separator comprising a fine-porous layer (X) consisting mainly of polyolefin (A), the fine-porous layer (X) having a melt flow rate of less than or equal to 0.9 g/10 min, and having an average long-hole diameter of more than or equal to 100 nm according to MD-TD surface observation or ND-MD cross-sectional observation with a scanning electron microscope.

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 circuit board having a signal and power isolation circuit, which can suppress the capacitive coupling between a chip inductor and a ground layer below the chip inductor and also suppress the characteristic impedance change occurring in a mounting pad on a microstrip line. Portions of the inner-layer ground below both the mounting pad on the microstrip line and the chip inductors connected to the mounting pad are separately removed respectively as the signal transmission characteristic compensation removal portion, which is formed by removing a portion having a predetermined area and situated immediately below the mounting pad, and the inductor characteristic compensation removal portion, which is formed by removing a mounting-surface-below portion having a predetermined area and situated immediately below the chip inductors.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device with a wiring layer including a plurality of wiring lines extending in a first direction; a first insulating film stacked on the wiring layer that has a gap region between the plurality of wiring lines adjacent to each other in a second direction; and a second insulating film between the plurality of wiring lines and the first insulating film. Each wiring line includes a metal film and a barrier metal layer. The metal film includes an electrically conductive material including a first metal. The barrier metal layer partially covers surroundings of the metal film in a cross section orthogonal to the first direction and includes a material including a second metal. The second metal prevents diffusion of the first metal. The second insulating film includes an insulating material and covers a portion of the metal film. The insulating material prevents diffusion of the first metal.

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: A workpiece inspection device 1 includes a table (3), image capturing unit fixing part (7), first light projection unit (4), second light projection unit (5), linear movement mechanism (8), turning mechanism (9), quality determination unit (10), and control unit (11). The control unit (11) performs first image capturing step of causing first light projection unit (4) to project light and causing image capturing unit (6) to capture image, detailed inspection portion-determination step of setting, portion of workpiece (2) determined to require detailed inspection based on image captured in the first image capturing step, second image capturing step of causing second light projection unit (5) to project light onto the workpiece (2) and causing image capturing unit (6) to capture image of the detailed inspection-requiring portion, and quality determination step of determining quality of the detailed inspection-requiring portion based on image captured in the second image capturing step.

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 cleaning device includes a housing, a cleaning blade, a toner conveyance path, a conveyance screw, and a first flicker. The conveyance screw includes a rotary shaft and a helical vane. The first flicker includes a first base portion and first contact pieces and uses the first contact pieces to press the conveyance screw in a first direction away from a bottom part of the toner conveyance path. The first base portion includes a secured portion and a blade opposed portion. A reinforcement member is stacked on the blade opposed portion.

Abstract: A transmission system capable of improving transmission characteristics in a low frequency range and having reduced size. A transmission system for superimposing power on a signal transmission path between a first circuit module and a second circuit module includes a first capacitor between the transmission path and a first interface IC in the first circuit module, a second capacitor between the transmission path and a second interface IC in the second circuit module, a first inductor between a first power supply circuit in the first circuit module and the transmission path, and a second inductor between a second power supply circuit in the second circuit module and the transmission path. A capacitance value of the first capacitor and a capacitance value of the second capacitor differ from each other. Inductance values of each of the first and second inductors are in a range from 20 [?H] to 50 [?H].

Abstract: An exposure apparatus including an obtainment unit configured to obtain, for each of a plurality of exposure regions on a substrate, surface positions in a height direction in the exposure region, and a control unit configured to control, based on the obtained surface positions, driving of a substrate stage in the height direction, wherein the control unit obtains an approximate surface approximately representing a cross-sectional shape of a surface of the exposure region from the obtained surface positions obtained, and for a first exposure region for which information related to the approximate surface does not exceed a predetermined range, controls the driving based on a correction value related to the driving obtained from an approximate surface approximately representing a cross-sectional shape of a surface of the exposure region that has been exposed prior to the first exposure region.

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.

Abstract: A generation function to generate and output generated data from an input, a discrimination function to cause each discriminator to discriminate whether the data to be discriminated is based on the training data or the generated data and to output a discrimination result. Also an update function to update the discriminator that has output the discrimination result such that the data to be discriminated is discriminated with higher accuracy, and to further update the generator to increase a probability of discriminating that the generated data-based data to be discriminated is the training data-based data, and a whole update function to cause the updates to be executed for the generator and all the discriminators.

Abstract: A coil wire includes a core wire and a winding wire. The winding wire is wound around a circumference of the core wire so as to form a plurality of spirals. The coil wire satisfies one of: (i) an outer surface of the core wire is exposed, and a distance between the outer surface of the core wire and an inner circumferential surface of part of the winding wire is smaller than a thickness of a first insulating film coated on the winding wire; or (ii) the outer surface of the core wire is coated by a second insulating film, and a distance between an outer surface of the second insulating film and the inner circumferential surface of part of the winding wire is smaller than a thickness of a thicker one of the first insulating film and the second insulating film.