Abstract: An electronic component includes an element body including a stack and a side margin, the stack having a rectangular or substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and including main surfaces opposing each other in a thickness direction, side surfaces opposing each other in a width direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the thickness direction, and end surfaces opposing each other in a length direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the thickness direction and the width direction, the stack including an internal electrode layer and a dielectric layer alternately stacked in the thickness direction, the side margin covering each of side surfaces of the stack in the width direction, and an external electrode covering one of the end surfaces of the element body in the length direction and electrically connected to the internal electrode layer.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers and electrode layers laminated therein, and two external electrodes respectively provided on two end surfaces of the multilayer body. As seen in a plane including a width and a lamination direction in a middle portion in a length direction, among the internal electrode layers, end portions in the width direction of about 90% or more of internal electrode layers in a middle in the lamination direction are curved toward a second main surface.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including an inner layer portion including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers, and external electrodes on end surfaces of the multilayer body. The internal electrode layers each include a counter electrode portion and an extension electrode portion extending from the counter electrode portion toward the end surface and, when viewing the multilayer body in a cross section parallel to the width direction and the lamination direction, and when a maximum length in the width direction of a range in which one end in the width direction of the counter electrode portions is provided is defined as R1, and a maximum length in the width direction of a range in which one end in the width direction of the extension electrode portions is provided is defined as R2, a relationship between R1 and R2 is R2>R1.

Abstract: There is provided a development cartridge capable of switching development colors in a plurality of development cartridges without using development rack. A development cartridge of the present invention has a part of a drive member for switching development colors.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to the invention includes, in an apparatus body, an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; and a rotary-type development unit being rotatable about an axis thereof and having a plurality of developing devices, which are used for developing the latent images formed on the image carrier. The rotary-type development unit is formed with cavities at an outer periphery thereof for receiving gas. The rotary-type development unit is rotated for sequentially advancing the gas in the cavities whereby the gas in the apparatus body is discharged out of the apparatus body.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to the invention includes, in an apparatus body, an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; and a rotary-type development unit being rotatable about an axis thereof and having a plurality of developing devices, which are used for developing the latent images formed on the image carrier. The rotary-type development unit is formed with cavities at an outer periphery thereof for receiving gas. The rotary-type development unit is rotated for sequentially advancing the gas in the cavities whereby the gas in the apparatus body is discharged out of the apparatus body.

Abstract: There is provided a development cartridge capable of switching development colors in a plurality of development cartridges without using development rack. A development cartridge of the present invention has a part of a drive member for switching development colors.

Abstract: In a plasma processing apparatus having an upper electrode and a lower electrode in a vacuum chamber, a substrate receiving face of the lower electrode is formed to have a same convex surface as a deflected face of a substrate on condition that surface of the substrate is freely supported on an circumference thereof, and a uniform pressure is applied to the back of the substrate.

Abstract: A robot-teaching cassette is used to teach a robot to position a wafer cassette or a substrate cassette on a cassette-supporting base by the robot, without using the wafer cassette or the substrate cassette. The robot-teaching cassette includes a fixing section capable of being fixed in position on the cassette-supporting base, a moving section capable of being held with a robot-chucking section of the robot and moving separately from the fixing section, a light source provided on the fixing section or the moving section, and a target establishing a reference position, for receiving beams emitted by the light source and provided on the fixing section or the moving section.