Abstract: An air conditioner is arranged so as to be able to accurately judge a refrigerant filling state within the air conditioner regardless of environmental and installation conditions.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring at least one of an arrangement and shape of shots formed on a substrate, comprises a scope configured to obtain an image of an alignment mark corresponding to a shot; and a calculating device configured to calculate a difference between a position of the alignment mark in the image obtained by the scope and a designed position of the alignment mark, obtain a non-linear component of the calculated difference with respect to each of a plurality of conditions, calculate an index indicating a stability of the non-linear component of each shot with respect to each of the plurality of conditions, and select, from the plurality of conditions, a condition for obtaining the non-linear component based on the calculated indices.

Abstract: An apparatus which projects a pattern of an original onto a substrate by a projection optical system within a chamber to expose the substrate, comprises a measurement unit which performs measurement to calculate a deformation amount of the original, and a controller which calculates a predicted deformation amount of the original and corrects a projection magnification of the projection optical system so as to correct the predicted deformation amount, based on information representing a relationship between the deformation amount with reference to a shape of the original at a certain temperature and a time for which the original receives exposure light, a deformation amount of the original before exposure determined based on a measurement value obtained by measuring, by the measurement unit, the deformation amount of the original loaded into the chamber and unused for exposure, and the time for which the original receives the exposure light.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus which aligns an original held by an original stage with a substrate held by a substrate stage, includes a measurement unit which measures the positional relationship between a mark of the original and a mark of the substrate stage, and a control unit which controls the measurement unit to execute the measurement by bringing the mark of the original and the mark of the substrate into the field of the measurement scope. The control unit controls the measurement unit to execute the measurement in accordance with a first procedure or a second procedure (in the first procedure, the mark attached on the original is measured by the measurement unit a number of times smaller than that in the second procedure), thereby performing the alignment in accordance with the results obtained by the executed measurement.

Abstract: A refrigerating air-conditioning apparatus, at least provided with no possibility that a foreign material returns to a compressor from an accumulator at a time of the pipeline-cleaning operation firstly, and provided with a possibility to perform a collecting operation for the foreign material in a short time secondary, is provided. The heat-source side unit includes an accumulator provided with a function to separate and collect the foreign material in an existing pipeline, a collecting container for collecting the foreign material separated by the accumulator, and an oil return pipeline for returning refrigerating machine oil to the compressor via a flow amount adjusting device, installed at a lower portion of the accumulator, and at a time of ordinary cooling or heating operation, the refrigerating machine oil is caused to flow into the oil return pipeline, and at a time of pipeline cleaning and foreign material-collecting operations, the flow amount adjusting device is fully closed.

Abstract: An air conditioner is arranged so as to be able to accurately judge a refrigerant filling state within the air conditioner regardless of environmental and installation conditions.

Abstract: A composition comprising a particulate Solid, an organic medium and a compound with an alkyleneoxy compound with an inorganic acidic polar head group (Z), wherein the compound is defined by Formula (1) and salts thereof: U—(Y)x-T-N(G)r(B-Z)q (Formula 1) wherein U is independently R?—N—(C)-T?-O—, or R—O—; R or R? may be the same or different and are independently H or C1-50-optionally substituted hydrocarbyl, or hydrocarbonyl group (acyl group), or the residue of an epoxide, or the residue of an optionally substituted (meth) acrylic ester or amide group; Y is C2-4-alkyleneoxy; T or T? is independently C2-4 alkylene; B is an alkylene group, such as, methylene; Z is an inorganic acidic polar head group, such as, a sulphur or phosphorus acidic polar head group; G and G? may be the same or different and are independently H or C1-50-optionally substituted hydrocarbyl or C1-50-optionally substituted hydrocarbyl or hydrocarbonyl group or the residue of an epoxide, or the residue of an optionally substituted (meth) ac

Abstract: An exposure apparatus comprises: a controller configured to control a position of a stage and operation of a detector; and a computer terminal connected to the controller; wherein the controller is configured to: (i) cause the detector to perform position detection of alignment marks under each of a plurality of position detection conditions, and calculate an index of accuracy of the position detection based on an output from the detector associated with the position detection, with respect to each of the plurality of position detection conditions; and (ii) cause the computer terminal to provide a display concerning the index calculated with respect to each of the plurality of position detection conditions, and receive a instruction for selecting a plurality of candidate conditions from among the plurality of displayed position detection conditions via the computer terminal.

Abstract: There is provided an aqueous resin composition excellent in settability, flexibility, retort resistance, hygienicity, sprayability and dispersibility in water, and used to coat an internal surface of a can.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring at least one of an arrangement and shape of shots formed on a substrate, comprises a scope configured to obtain an image of an alignment mark corresponding to a shot; and a calculating device configured to calculate a difference between a position of the alignment mark in the image obtained by the scope and a designed position of the alignment mark, obtain a non-linear component of the calculated difference with respect to each of a plurality of conditions, calculate an index indicating a stability of the non-linear component of each shot with respect to each of the plurality of conditions, and select, from the plurality of conditions, a condition for obtaining the non-linear component based on the calculated indices.

Abstract: It is determined whether it is necessary to execute processing for automatically measuring a shot compensation parameter. Processing is reduced by performing automatic measurement of the shot compensation parameter only when such measurement is necessary. This is followed by measuring a wafer compensation parameter automatically. Depending upon whether or not automatic measurement of the shot compensation parameter has been performed, it is determined whether to calculate a relative parameter ? between the shot compensation parameter and wafer compensation parameter or to calculate a shot compensation parameter from a stored relative parameter ? and a wafer compensation parameter. This maintains alignment precision. The units comprising the apparatus are driven to perform exposure in accordance with the shot compensation parameter and wafer compensation parameter obtained.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus which can be connected to a plurality of terminals, comprising an input unit for inputting the image data representing the image corresponding to a predetermined range by causing a predetermined camera unit to photograph or take each of plural partial areas obtained by dividing the image corresponding to the predetermined range, a reception unit for receiving commands representing positions in the predetermined range from a plurality of terminals, an extraction unit for extracting the image data corresponding to a part of the predetermined range on the basis of the command received by the reception unit and a transmission control unit for causing a predetermined transmission unit to transmit the image data extracted by the extraction means, to the terminal which transmitted the command corresponding to the image data.

Abstract: There is provided an aqueous resin composition excellent in settability, flexibility, retort resistance, hygienicity, sprayability and dispersibility in water, and used to coat an internal surface of a can.

Abstract: There is provided an aqueous resin composition excellent in settability, flexibility, retort resistance, hygienicity, sprayability and dispersibility in water, and used to coat an internal surface of a can.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus or a device manufacturing method, wherein a focus measuring device measures a best focus position upon projecting and exposing, through a projection optical system, a pattern of an original plate onto a substrate placed on a movable stage, by obtaining predetermined estimating information indicative of a blur degree of an image being observed, when observing a reference mark on the movable stage or the surface of the substrate by the focus measuring device, while changing a relative position between the movable stage and the projection optical system toward an optical axis direction of the projection optical system.

Abstract: An oil separator including a shell (50) with a cylindrical section and a taper section which narrows in a downward direction and which is formed as an integral part at the bottom of the cylindrical section, an outlet pipe (51) which is inserted through the top of the shell so that the central axis of the outlet pipe coincides with the central axis of the shell, a discharge pipe (52) connected to an opening provided at the bottom of the taper section, and an inlet pipe (53) connected tangentially to the inner surface of the cylindrical section for introducing a gas liquid two phase flow into the shell, wherein the distance between the shell opening (50a) and the tip (51a) of the outlet pipe inside the shell is at least 5 times the inside diameter of the inlet pipe (53).

Abstract: There is provided an aqueous resin composition excellent in settability, flexibility, retort resistance, hygienicity, sprayability and dispersibility in water, and used to coat an internal surface of a can.

Abstract: It is determined whether it is necessary to execute processing for automatically measuring a shot compensation parameter. Processing is reduced by performing automatic measurement of the shot compensation parameter only when such measurement is necessary. This is followed by measuring a wafer compensation parameter automatically. Depending upon whether or not automatic measurement of the shot compensation parameter has been performed, it is determined whether to calculate a relative parameter &dgr; between the shot compensation parameter and wafer compensation parameter or to calculate a shot compensation parameter from a stored relative parameter &dgr; and a wafer compensation parameter. This maintains alignment precision. The units comprising the apparatus are driven to perform exposure in accordance with the shot compensation parameter and wafer compensation parameter obtained.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve usage of a terminal which receives and displays image data, by causing a camera or the like to effectively photograph or take an image existing within a photographable range of the camera, and by holding the photographed image as the image data. In order to achieve the object, it is provided, e.g.

Abstract: An oil separator including a shell (50) with a cylindrical section and a taper section which narrows in a downward direction and which is formed as an integral part at the bottom of the cylindrical section, an outlet pipe (51) which is inserted through the top of the shell so that the central axis of the outlet pipe coincides with the central axis of the shell, a discharge pipe (52) connected to an opening provided at the bottom of the taper section, and an inlet pipe (53) connected tangentially to the inner surface of the cylindrical section for introducing a gas liquid two phase flow into the shell, wherein the distance between the shell opening (50a) and the tip (51a) of the outlet pipe inside the shell is at least 5 times the inside diameter of the inlet pipe (53).