Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a carrier storage rack configured to place and store a carrier that accommodates a substrate; a gas supply configured to supply an inert gas into the carrier placed on the carrier storage rack; and a controller configured to control whether to supply the inert gas into the carrier based on at least one of carrier information and substrate information.

Abstract: A gear machining apparatus creates a gear on a workpiece W by moving a gear cutting tool relatively with respect to the workpiece along the direction of the rotation axis of the workpiece W while synchronously rotating the gear cutting tool and the workpiece. One of a workpiece rotation speed controlling portion and a tool rotation speed controlling portion varies the rotation speed of one of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool and the other one of the workpiece rotation speed controlling portion and the tool rotation speed controlling portion synchronizes the rotation speed of the other one of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool with one of the rotation speed of the workpiece and the gear cutting tool.

Abstract: A fastener tape includes a mounting part for mounting a fastener element and a sewing part for sewing a fabric. The mutually adjoining sides of the mounting part and sewing part are integrally connected to each other. Another side of the mounting part which is spaced distantly from the sewing part provides a fastener element mounting side for mounting the fastener element. The sewing part is constituted of a plain weave texture.

Abstract: A bearing structure of the present disclosure includes a rotation shaft, a bearing that is attached in a housing to support the rotation shaft with respect to the housing and includes an inner race through which the rotation shaft is inserted and an outer race which includes an annular groove portion formed on an outer peripheral surface facing an inner wall surface of the housing, and an O-ring which is disposed on the groove portion of the outer race of the bearing, protrudes outward in a radial direction in relation to the outer peripheral surface, and comes into contact with the inner wall surface of the housing. A clearance is formed between the inner wall surface of the housing and the outer peripheral surface of the bearing. The clearance is larger than a radial displacement amount of the O-ring.

Abstract: A machining apparatus that need not exchange a processing nozzle when changing a shaping condition, and increases the use efficiency of a material. The processing nozzle that performs processing by ejecting a processing material towards a molten pool formed on a process surface by an energy line includes a cylindrical inner housing that incorporates a path through which the energy line passes, and ejects the energy line from one end. The processing nozzle also includes a cylindrical outer housing that incorporates the inner housing, and has an inner surface tapered in the ejection direction of the energy line ejected from the inner housing. The processing nozzle also includes a slide mechanism that changes, along the energy line, the relative position of the outer housing with respect to the inner housing.

Abstract: An optical processing head capable of reducing the energy loss at the time of optical processing is disclosed. The optical processing head includes a first optical element that converts light emitted by a light source into first parallel light, a second optical element that is arranged downstream of the first optical element and converts the first parallel light into first divergent light, a third optical element that is arranged downstream of the second optical element and converts the first divergent light into second parallel light, and a fourth optical element that is arranged downstream of the third optical element and converts the second parallel light into convergent light which is condensed on the processing surface side.

Abstract: A fastener tape includes a mounting part for mounting a fastener element and a sewing part for sewing a fabric. The mutually adjoining sides of the mounting part and sewing part are integrally connected to each other. Another side of the mounting part which is spaced distantly from the sewing part provides a fastener element mounting side for mounting the fastener element. The sewing part is constituted of a plain weave texture.

Abstract: A pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body of a honeycomb structure includes a circumferential cell structure, a central cell structure and a boundary wall therebetween. On a surface orthogonal to the cells there are a circumferential reinforcing region having the partition wall thicker than a basic partition wall thickness in the circumferential cell structure and existing outside a range of a distance from a centroid of the surface; and at least one of a first boundary reinforcing region having the partition wall thicker than the basic partition wall thickness and existing in a range of a distance from the centroid within a range of the circumferential cell structure and a second boundary reinforcing region having the partition wall thicker than a basic partition wall thickness in the central cell structure and existing outside of a range of a distance from the centroid within a range of the central cell structure.

Abstract: An electric compressor includes a rotation shaft, a compressor impeller, a rotor portion, a stator portion, and a motor housing. The motor housing includes an inner housing which includes a first cylindrical portion surrounding and holding the stator portion and an outer housing which includes a second cylindrical portion surrounding and holding the first cylindrical portion of the inner housing. An outer peripheral surface of the stator portion is in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the first cylindrical portion of the inner housing. An outer peripheral surface of the first cylindrical portion is provided with a first groove portion disposed to turn around an axis of the rotation shaft by one turn or more and the first groove portion includes a spiral groove portion.

Abstract: An optical processing nozzle that homogeneously supplies a fluid to a processing surface in optical processing. The optical processing nozzle includes a beam path that is arranged so that a beam can pass through the beam path towards a processing surface in order to perform processing using a beam guided from a light source, and a channel structure that is arranged around the beam path and is configured to eject a fluid towards the processing surface. The channel structure includes an inflow port through which the fluid flows, at least two passage holes through which the fluid flowing from the inflow port passes, a channel that guides the fluid from the inflow port to the passage holes, and an ejection port from which the fluid having passed through the at least two passage holes is ejected toward the processing surface.

Abstract: The mobility of an optical processing apparatus is improved. There is provided an optical processing apparatus for scanning a processing region having an at least one-dimensional spread by moving a nozzle head while irradiating the processing region with an optical processing light beam via the nozzle head, including a light source that emits, to air, the optical processing light beam toward the nozzle head, a nozzle head that includes a hollow nozzle in a vertical direction and a light beam direction changing optical system which receives the light beam emitted from the light source and propagated in the air, and changes a propagation direction of the received light beam to a direction of a currently processed processing point in the processing region, and a main scanning direction moving mechanism that moves the nozzle head by causing the nozzle head to scan in a main scanning direction of the processing region.

Abstract: An exhaust gas energy recovery device includes a power generation device driven by a turbine configured to rotate by an exhaust gas, a switching element connected to the power generation device, a first terminal connected to the power generation device via the switching element and for being connected to a first power storage device, and a second terminal connected to the power generation device and for being connected to a second power storage device, in which a terminal voltage of the first power storage device is lower than a terminal voltage of the second power storage device, and the switching element switches a destination to be charged by the power generation device to either the first power storage device or the second power storage device on the basis of magnitude of a direct current voltage output from the power generation device.

Abstract: An optical processing head that detects a trouble of an optical processing head that will be generated at the time of optical processing before the trouble occurs is disclosed. The optical processing head that performs processing by condensing, on a process surface, a ray emitted by a light source for processing includes a cylindrical housing that surrounds a ray for processing emitted by the light source for processing, a ray emitter for inspection that is incorporated in the cylindrical housing and arranged outside the path of the ray for processing, and a light receiver that is incorporated in the cylindrical housing, arranged outside the path of the ray for processing, and receives a ray for inspection emitted by the ray emitter for inspection. The contamination of the inner surface of the cylindrical housing or the concentration of a scattering object flowing into the cylindrical housing is inspected by using a signal acquired from the light receiver.

Abstract: An optical processing head capable of downsizing an apparatus while increasing the shaping accuracy of optical processing is disclosed. The optical processing head performs processing while moving, in a predetermined moving direction on a processing surface, an optical spot formed by condensing light emitted by a light source. The optical processing head includes an optical element that condenses light emitted by the light source to generate the optical spot of a shape elongated in the moving direction of the optical spot. Part of the optical spot is set as a processing region, the front side and/or rear side of the processing region in the moving direction is set as a pre-heating region and/or post-heating region, and a processing target object before and/or after processing in the region is heated.

Abstract: An electric compressor includes: a rotary shaft to which a compressor impeller is attached; a stator portion which is disposed around the rotary shaft; and a motor housing which accommodates the stator portion. The motor housing includes an inner housing which includes a first cylindrical portion surrounding and holding the stator portion and an outer housing which includes a second cylindrical portion surrounding and holding the first cylindrical portion of the inner housing. Between an outer surface of the inner housing and an inner surface of the outer housing, a cooling jacket portion is formed in a part of a circumferential direction about the rotary shaft. The inner housing includes a first end wall portion which is formed to be continuous to the first cylindrical portion and extends inward in relation to an outer peripheral portion of the stator portion in a radial direction of the rotary shaft.

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a compressor impeller attached to a rotary shaft and a housing accommodating the rotary shaft and the compressor impeller. The housing includes a suction portion formed upstream of the compressor impeller and a high pressure part formed on a rear face side of the compressor impeller and having a pressure higher than a pressure in the suction portion during rotation of the compressor impeller. The housing has a discharge passage formed for connecting the high pressure part to a low pressure part including the suction portion and a gas flow path upstream of the suction portion.

Abstract: Provided is an electric compressor which includes a motor which rotates a rotary shaft of a impeller; a housing which accommodates the motor; a plate attached to the housing mounted with a control circuit configured to drive and control the motor; and a refrigerant flow passage provided between the housing and the plate. At least a part of the refrigerant flow passage is formed by a heat radiation fin provided on at least one of the housing and the plate.

Abstract: An electric compressor includes a casing which accommodates an inverter and includes a bottom plate on which a power board of the inverter is mounted and a cooling water passage which is provided in a housing and opens to a bottom plate of the casing. The bottom plate of the casing includes a first surface on which a power board is mounted and a second surface opposite to the first surface. A metal plate is buried at a position corresponding to the power board in the bottom plate and a rear surface of the metal plate is exposed to the second surface side and faces the cooling water passage.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a substrate conveyance area; a substrate storage conveyance area; a substrate storage storing shelf; a first purge gas supply unit that supplies a purge gas into the substrate storage on the substrate storage storing shelf; an integrated flow rate acquiring unit that acquires an integrated flow rate of the purge gas supplied into the substrate storage; a transfer and placement unit; a second purge gas supply unit that supplies a purge gas into the substrate storage placed on the transfer and placement unit; a substrate transfer unit that transfers the substrate into the substrate conveyance area when the substrate storage is opened; and a controller that calculates an oxygen concentration within the substrate storage based on the integrated flow rate of the purge gas, and transfers the substrate to the substrate conveyance area when the oxygen concentration is a threshold value or less.

Abstract: A rotary machine is provided with: a bearing that supports a rotary shaft of an impeller; a bearing support part that supports an outer circumference of the bearing; a key groove that is formed in the bearing and the bearing support part and extends along a rotary shaft line direction of the rotary shaft; and a key member that is inserted into the key groove. The bearing support part is provided with an outer regulating part that can contact one end part of the key member inside the key groove. An outer ring of the bearing is provided with an inner regulating part that can contact another end part of the key member inside the key groove. A distance between the outer regulating part and the inner regulating part is longer than a length of the key member in the rotary shaft line direction.