Abstract: To provide a thin film capacitor having high adhesion performance with respect to a multilayer substrate. A thin film capacitor includes: a metal foil having a roughened upper surface; a dielectric film covering the upper surface of the metal foil and having an opening through which the metal foil is partly exposed; a first electrode layer contacting the metal foil through the opening; and a second electrode layer contacting the dielectric film without contacting the metal foil. A height of the first electrode layer is lower than a height of the second electrode layer. This enhances adhesion performance when the thin film capacitor is embedded in a multilayer substrate and improves ESR characteristics.

Abstract: A terminal block which can be coupled to another terminal block in an electrically connected state includes a housing, an input-side power supply terminal and an output-side power supply terminal. The housing includes a first wall portion and a second wall portion. The input-side power supply terminal and the output-side power supply terminal are arranged along the second wall portion inside the housing. The housing includes a protruding portion that functions as an obstructing member that hinders connection of the input-side power supply line to the input-side power supply terminal and a through hole that is arranged in a vicinity of the input-side power supply terminal of the second wall portion and penetrates the second wall portion in the first direction to allow insertion of the obstructing member.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object printer includes a head having a plurality of nozzles that discharge a liquid, a movement mechanism having an arm section that supports the head and having a plurality of joint sections provided on the arm section, a drive circuit that generates a drive signal to drive the head, a control circuit that generates a control signal to control supply of the drive signal to the head, a first cable for transmitting the drive signal from the drive circuit to the head, and a second cable for transmitting the control signal from the control circuit to the head. At least a part of the second cable is arranged along the arm section. The control signal is transmitted as a differential signal to the second cable.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object printing apparatus includes a head that ejects a liquid to a printing region on a workpiece, and a movement mechanism that changes a relative position and posture between the workpiece and the head, and executes a first printing operation and a second printing operation. The printing region includes a first band region into which the liquid is ejected in the first printing operation and a second band region into which the liquid is ejected in the second printing operation. When a width of the first band region at a first position is set as a first width and a width of the first band region at a second position is set as a second width, the first width is less than the second width, and a part of the printing region overlaps with a part of the second band region at the first position.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object printing apparatus executes a first printing operation in which a liquid is ejected into a first band region and a second printing operation in which the liquid is ejected into a second band region. When an angle formed by a vector at a first position in a first path and a vector at a second position in a second path is set as a first angle and an angle formed by a vector at a third position in the first path and a vector at a fourth position in the second path is set as a second angle, the first angle is more than the second angle, and a width in which the first band region overlaps with the second band region at the first position is less than a width in which the first band region overlaps with the second band region at the third position.

Abstract: A program creation device provided with: a display unit for displaying a display screen that includes an operation trajectory of a machine, control commands for the machine, and parameter settings for the control commands; an input unit for inputting user operation information on the screen; and a program editing unit that, on the basis of the user operation information, links, on the same screen, an instruction regarding the operation trajectory and parameter settings for a corrected operation command based on sensor information, and edits an operation program for the machine.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a head including a nozzle surface; and a robot changes a relative position of the head with respect to a workpiece, in which a first printing operation of performing printing on the workpiece is executed by causing the head to eject the liquid, and when a timing at which the first printing operation is started is set as a first timing, a timing at which the first printing operation ends is set as a second timing, a timing between the first timing and the second timing is set as a third timing, and a distance between the plurality of nozzles and the workpiece along a normal direction of the nozzle surface is set as an ejection distance, the ejection distance at one or both of the first timing and the second timing is more than the ejection distance at the third timing.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object printing apparatus includes: a head having a nozzle surface; a robot that has a base portion that supports the head, and changes a position of the head with respect to the base portion; and a cap portion having a fixed position to the base portion to cover the nozzle surface, in which the three-dimensional object printing apparatus is configured to execute: a capping operation of causing the robot to locate the head at a position at which the nozzle surface is covered with the cap portion, and a printing operation of causing the head to eject the liquid to a work with respect to the work, and a yaw angle of the head during the execution of the capping operation and a yaw angle of the head during the execution of the printing operation are different from each other.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a head and a robot which changes a position of the head with respect to a workpiece, the head includes a first nozzle row for ejecting a first ink and a second nozzle row for ejecting a second ink which has lower brightness than the first ink, the robot includes an arm portion having a distal end, a proximal end, and a base portion coupled to the proximal end, and supports the head by the distal end, and a first joint which is a joint closest to the distal end and rotate around a first rotating axis, and a distance between the second nozzle row and the first rotating axis is less than a distance between the first nozzle row and the first rotating axis when viewed in a direction along the first rotating axis.

Abstract: This control device includes a force sensor, and a parameter calculation unit for calculating a moving direction for moving a first workpiece, and the position of a workpiece end point when performing force control. An operator causes a robot to bring the workpiece end point of the first workpiece into contact with a corner of a second workpiece. The force sensor detects a force in a period in which the first workpiece is pressed along a pressing direction. The parameter calculation unit calculates the moving direction and the position of the workpiece end point, on the basis of forces detected by the force sensor for a plurality of pressing directions.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object printing apparatus includes: a head having a nozzle surface; and a robot that has a base portion and an arm portion that supports the head, and changes a position of the head with respect to the base portion, in which the three-dimensional object printing apparatus is configured to execute: a first printing operation of causing the head to print an image to a three-dimensional first medium, and a second printing operation of causing the head to print a test pattern while causing the robot to change a position of the head with respect to the second medium, and a yaw angle of the head during the execution of the first printing operation and a yaw angle of the head during the execution of the second printing operation are different from each other.

Abstract: There is provided a three-dimensional object printing apparatus including a first robot supporting a head having a nozzle for discharging a liquid and changing a position and a posture of the head, a second robot supporting a three-dimensional workpiece and changing a position and a posture of the workpiece, a curing unit that emits energy to cure or solidify the liquid discharged from the head, and a maintenance unit that performs maintenance on the head. The first robot has a first base portion fixed to a base. The second robot has a second base portion fixed to the base. In a plan view of the base, a virtual line segment connecting the first base portion and the second base portion passes between the curing unit and the maintenance unit.

Abstract: A surface of a workpiece has a smooth region, and a stepped region including a step. A three-dimensional object printing method includes first print operation of ejecting liquid from a head onto the smooth region, and second print operation, antecedent to or subsequent to the first print operation, of ejecting liquid from the head onto the stepped region. The amount of change in an angle of ejection, which is angle formed by a first normal line and a second normal line, during execution of the second print operation is larger than the amount of change in the angle of ejection during execution of the first print operation. The first normal line is a line normal to the ejection face. The second normal line is a line normal to the surface of the workpiece at a point of intersection with the first normal line.

Abstract: This control device is provided with a processing unit for calculating a permissible value of an external force that is permissible to be applied on a robot, a workpiece, or a hand. The permissible value of load that can be exerted on a constituent member of the robot is determined in advance. The processing unit calculates a permissible value of an external force in an application direction in which the external force is applied, on the basis of the position and attitude of the robot, the position of an application point where the external force is applied, and the permissible value of load of the constituent member of the robot.

Abstract: There is provided a three-dimensional object printing apparatus including an imaging device fixed to a base and imaging an object located inside an imaging range, a first robot supporting a head having a nozzle for discharging a liquid and changing a position and a posture of the head, and a second robot supporting a three-dimensional workpiece and changes a position and a posture of the workpiece. The three-dimensional object printing apparatus performs a material feeding step of causing the second robot to move the workpiece from an outside to an inside of the imaging range, and a printing step of causing the head to discharge the liquid to the workpiece while at least one of the first robot and the second robot relatively moves the head and the workpiece inside the imaging range.

Abstract: An imaging unit includes: an illumination unit that includes an illumination optical system; a first holding frame configured to hold the illumination unit; an imaging-unit main body that includes an imager, and an observation optical system configured to form the subject image on the imager; and a second holding frame configured to hold the imaging-unit main body. A first abutting portion configured to abut on the second holding frame in a radial direction of the first holding frame is arranged on an outer surface of the first holding frame.

Abstract: There are provided a temperature sensor that has following capability to a temperature measurement object and has excellent responsiveness, and a temperature detection device and an image forming apparatus each including the temperature sensor. A temperature sensor used in contact with a temperature measurement object, includes: a thermosensitive element configured to detect a temperature of the temperature measurement object; a heat collection member including an abutting portion configured to abut on the temperature measurement object, and configured to be thermally joined with the thermosensitive element; and a holding member including a housing portion configured to house the heat collection member. The heat collection member is swingably held by the holding member, to maintain a state where the abutting portion abuts on the temperature measurement object.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object print apparatus performs a first step at which a liquid ejecting head ejects liquid onto a workpiece and simultaneously a moving mechanism changes a location of the liquid ejecting head relative to the workpiece along a first route and further performs a second step at which an energy emitting section irradiates the liquid on the workpiece with energy and simultaneously the moving mechanism changes the location of the liquid ejecting head relative to the workpiece along a second route. In this case, L1<L2 at the first step and L1>L2 at the second step, where L1 denotes a distance in a direction normal to a nozzle surface of the liquid ejecting head between the workpiece and the nozzle surface, and L2 denotes a distance in a direction normal to an emission surface of the energy emitting section between the workpiece and the emission surface.