Abstract: A three-dimensional fabricating apparatus includes a fabrication chamber, a flattening member, a surplus powder chamber, and an impact applicator. The fabrication chamber stacks powder in layers and a layered fabrication object in which the powder is bonded together. The flattening member relatively moves with respect to the fabrication chamber to fill the fabrication chamber with the powder. The surplus powder chamber is disposed outside the fabrication chamber, to receive a surplus of the powder having not been filled in the fabrication chamber. The impact applicator is movable with the flattening member to contact and impact on the surplus powder chamber.

Abstract: A method for fabricating an object includes forming, first applying, second applying, and repeating. The forming forms a powder layer. The first applying applies a droplet containing a radiation absorber to the powder layer. The second applying applies radiant energy to the powder layer. The repeating repeats the forming, the first applying, and the second applying. The first applying includes applying the droplet to a surface of the powder layer to form a fabrication region; dividing the fabrication region into a plurality of divided regions; and applying the droplet a plurality of times to a partial specific divided region among the plurality of divided regions. The second applying includes applying the radiant energy with a variable radiation intensity to a range including at least the specific divided region.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a three-dimensional fabricating apparatus includes a supply unit, a flattening unit, a discharge unit, and a controller. The supply unit is configured to supply powder. The flattening unit is configured to flatten a surface of the supplied powder and form a powder layer. The discharge unit is configured to discharge a first fabrication liquid solidifying the powder and a second fabrication liquid not solidifying the powder onto a surface of the powder layer. The controller is configured to cause the discharge unit to discharge the first fabrication liquid and the second fabrication liquid in accordance with a discharge pattern in which the second fabrication liquid is discharged to a region adjacent to at least some of a plurality of regions in which the first fabrication liquid is discharged.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a Lactobacillus plantarum HAC01 strain having anti-inflammatory efficacy and metabolic disease improving efficacy, a probiotic preparation, an anti-inflammatory composition, and a health food composition for improving a metabolic disease, which comprises, as an active ingredient, at least one selected from the group consisting of the strain, a culture product of the strain, a concentrate of the culture product, and a dried material of the culture product.

Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a spin head configured to support the substrate, a cup surrounding an outer circumference of the spin head, a first ejection member having a first nozzle configured to discharge a first chemical to the substrate located in the spin head, and a second ejection member having a second nozzle configured to discharge a second chemical of the same chemical composition as that of the first chemical to the substrate located in the spin head.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for treating a substrate with liquid are disclosed. The substrate treating apparatus comprises a substrate supporting unit for supporting the substrate, a liquid supply unit for supplying a liquid to the substrate supported on the substrate supporting unit, and a controller for controlling the liquid supply unit, wherein the liquid supply unit comprises a first nozzle for supplying a first liquid and a second nozzle for supplying a second liquid, and a second area where the second liquid is supplied on the substrate is provided within a first area where the first liquid is supplied on the substrate. The first liquid and the second liquid supplied with a hydrophobic film are discharged with different ways from each other. Thereby, particles with various sizes may be removed depending on each discharge methods.

Abstract: An apparatus for fabricating a three-dimensional object includes a fabrication stage and a flattener. A fabrication layer in which powder particles are bound together is formed layer-by-layer on the fabrication stage. The flattener relatively moves in a moving direction along a stage surface of the fabrication stage and flattens a surface of powder on the fabrication stage to form a powder layer. The fabrication stage and the flattener are arranged to be relatively movable in a height direction. In formation of the powder layer on the fabrication layer formed on the fabrication stage, the apparatus performs an operation to increase a distance between the flattener and the fabrication stage in the height direction when the flattener moves to a position near an edge of the fabrication layer in the moving direction.

Abstract: A three-dimensional fabrication apparatus includes a fabrication chamber, a supply chamber, a flattening unit, and a powder collector. The powder collector is disposed forward from the flattening unit in a transfer direction of the flattening unit. The powder collector is movable with movement of the flattening unit. The powder collector includes a body container, a collection port, and a discharge port. When the flattening unit transfers and supplies powder, the powder collector collects a portion of the powder from the collection port and contains the portion of the powder in the body container. When the flattening unit returns to the supply chamber, the powder collector discharges and supplies the powder from the body container to the supply chamber through the discharge port.

Abstract: A system uses portable processing devices that communicate with external devices. A portable processing device having a camera transmits, to a server, an identification information request message including an image acquired by the camera; receives, from the server, identification information related to an object shown in the image; in response to user selection of the object, transmits, to the server, a data request message requesting data corresponding to the identification information of the selected object; receives, from the server, a first data corresponding to the identification information; edits the first data to provide a second data in response to user input information; and transmits the second data to the server enabling the server to update the first data to provide the second data item.

Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a spin head configured to support the substrate, a cup surrounding an outer circumference of the spin head, a first ejection member having a first nozzle configured to discharge a first chemical to the substrate located in the spin head, and a second ejection member having a second nozzle configured to discharge a second chemical of the same chemical composition as that of the first chemical to the substrate located in the spin head.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for treating a substrate with liquid. The substrate treating apparatus comprises a substrate supporting unit for supporting the substrate, a liquid supply unit for supplying a liquid to the substrate supported on the substrate supporting unit, and a controller for controlling the liquid supply unit, wherein the liquid supply unit comprises a first nozzle for supplying a first liquid and a second nozzle for supplying a second liquid, and a second area where the second liquid is supplied on the substrate is provided within a first area where the first liquid is supplied on the substrate. The first liquid and the second liquid supplied with a hydrophobic film are discharged with different ways from each other. Thereby, particles with various sizes may be removed depending on each discharge methods.

Abstract: A three-dimensional fabricating apparatus includes a fabrication chamber, a flattening member, a surplus powder chamber, and an impact applicator. The fabrication chamber stacks powder in layers and a layered fabrication object in which the powder is bonded together. The flattening member relatively moves with respect to the fabrication chamber to fill the fabrication chamber with the powder. The surplus powder chamber is disposed outside the fabrication chamber, to receive a surplus of the powder having not been filled in the fabrication chamber. The impact applicator is movable with the flattening member to contact and impact on the surplus powder chamber.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a Lactobacillus plantarum HAC01 strain having anti-inflammatory efficacy and metabolic disease improving efficacy, a probiotic preparation, an anti-inflammatory composition, and a health food composition for improving a metabolic disease, which comprises, as an active ingredient, at least one selected from the group consisting of the strain, a culture product of the strain, a concentrate of the culture product, and a dried material of the culture product.

Abstract: A three-dimensional fabrication apparatus includes a fabrication chamber, a liquid discharge device, a vibration applicator, and a controller. In the fabrication chamber, powder is layered to form a powder layer, the powder of the powder layer is bonded together in a desired shape to form a layered fabrication object, and another layered fabrication object is laminated on the layered fabrication object. The liquid discharge device discharges a fabrication liquid onto the powder in the fabrication chamber. The vibration applicator applies vibration to the powder layer onto which the fabrication liquid is discharged from the liquid discharge device. The controller controls and drives the vibration applicator to apply vibration to the powder layer when the liquid discharge device discharges the fabrication liquid onto the powder layer to form the layered fabrication object.

Abstract: A three-dimensional fabrication apparatus includes a fabrication chamber, a supply chamber, a flattening unit, and a powder collector. The powder collector is disposed forward from the flattening unit in a transfer direction of the flattening unit. The powder collector is movable with movement of the flattening unit. The powder collector includes a body container, a collection port, and a discharge port. When the flattening unit transfers and supplies powder, the powder collector collects a portion of the powder from the collection port and contains the portion of the powder in the body container. When the flattening unit returns to the supply chamber, the powder collector discharges and supplies the powder from the body container to the supply chamber through the discharge port.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a recording head, a maintenance unit, a cover, and a controller. The recording head has a nozzle face and nozzles in the nozzle face to eject droplets of liquid. The maintenance unit has a cap to protect the nozzle face of the recording head. The cover opens an interior of the apparatus body to an outside of the apparatus body. The controller performs a normal control to cap the nozzle face of the recording head with the cap on opening of the cover and a special control to expose the nozzle face of the recording head to an area opened by the cover on receipt of an external instruction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a receiving face member, and a cleaner. The recording head discharges droplets. The receiving face member includes a receiving face to receive dummy discharge droplets discharged from the recording head and not contributing to image formation. With rotation of the receiving face member, the receiving face movable between a facing position at which the receiving face faces the recording head and a retracted position at which the receiving face does not face the recording head. The cleaner cleans the receiving face of the receiving face member.

Abstract: A three-dimensional fabricating apparatus includes a fabrication stage, a rotator, a powder remover, and a cleaning controller. Fabrication layers including powder bonded together are to be laminated on the fabrication stage. The rotator rotates and moves relatively with respect to the fabrication stage in a direction along a stage surface of the fabrication stage to flatten a surface of the powder on the fabrication stage and form a powder layer. The powder remover contacts a circumferential surface of the rotator and removes the powder adhering to the circumferential surface of the rotator. The cleaning controller is operatively connected to the rotator to control a cleaning operation to rotate the rotator and clean the powder accumulated between the circumferential surface of the rotator and the powder remover.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a medium; a reciprocally moving carriage on which to mount the image forming unit; a carriage position detector to detect a position of the carriage; a conveyance unit to convey the medium; a conveyance path of the medium; a regulator to regulate a distance between the medium and the image forming unit and movable in a moving direction of the carriage; a regulator detector, mounted on the carriage, to detect the regulator; a drive unit to move the regulator; and a controller that controls a position of the regulator based on a reading from the carriage position when the regulator detector detects the regulator.