Abstract: A top-blowing lance nozzle is configured to freely switch an adequate expansion condition so as to control an oxygen-blowing amount and a jetting velocity independently of each other without requiring a plurality of lance nozzles or a mechanically movable part. A lance nozzle is configured to blow refining oxygen to molten iron charged in a reaction vessel while a gas is blown from a top-blowing lance to the molten iron. One or more blowing holes for blowing a working gas are on an inner wall side surface of the nozzle, at a site where the lance nozzle has a minimum cross-sectional area in a nozzle axis direction or at a neighboring site of the site.

Abstract: There is a placing table comprising: an electrostatic chuck having a chuck electrode, wherein the electrostatic chuck is configured to attract and hold a substrate on a placing surface and to be rotatable; a freezing device having a contact surface in contact with or separated from a surface of the electrostatic chuck opposite to the placing surface and configured to cool the electrostatic chuck; and a power controller configured to superimpose a radio frequency (RF) bias voltage applied to the electrostatic chuck on a chuck voltage applied to the chuck electrode.

Abstract: A collecting device includes a collecting path for a developer, at least one transport member that is disposed in the collecting path and that transports the developer by rotating, a driving unit that drives, by receiving electric power, the transport member in such a manner that the transport member rotates, a detecting unit that detects a load applied to the driving unit due to transportation of the developer, and a control unit that controls the driving unit based on the load detected by the detecting unit.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a light source apparatus that makes it possible to provide a widely applicable light source apparatus. A light source apparatus includes a transmissive board that transmits light emitted by a light-emitting element, a circuit board that drives the light-emitting element and is joined to the transmissive board, and a light-emitting board that has the light-emitting element and is connected to the circuit board via a first bump. Further, in the light source apparatus, the circuit board and an organic board are configured to be connected by sandwiching the light-emitting board via second bumps. The present technology can be applied to a light source apparatus that emits light.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an electronic circuit board, a base member, electronic equipment, an electronic equipment manufacturing method and an electronic circuit board manufacturing method that make it possible to mount an electronic circuit board easily on a curved surface, for example. An electronic circuit board has a deformable wiring board having a plurality of areas that is long in one direction and is formed to be partially continuous with each other, and the plurality of areas of the wiring board is provided with deformable plate-like plate members that are more rigid than the wiring board. For example, the present technology can be applied to an electronic circuit board on which various devices are mounted.

Abstract: In an optical fiber cable in which an optical fiber ribbon formed by parallelly arranging a plurality of optical fibers is packaged in an internal space, a core portion of each optical fiber is made of pure quartz and an effective cross-sectional area of the core portion at a wavelength of 1,550 nm is 110 ?m2 or more and 150 ?m2 or less. The optical fiber ribbon is an optical fiber ribbon in which the optical fibers are connected by continuously applying an adhesive resin between adjacent optical fibers. An occupation ratio of the optical fiber ribbon to the internal space calculated from a ratio of a cross-sectional area of the internal space to a cross-sectional area of the packaged optical fiber ribbon is 25% or more and 55% or less.

Abstract: A magnetron sputtering apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises: a vacuum chamber storing a substrate; a plurality of sputtering mechanisms, each including a target having one surface facing the inside of the vacuum chamber, a magnet array, and a moving mechanism for reciprocating the magnet array between a first position and a second position on the other surface of the target; a power supply for forming plasma by supplying power to targets of selected sputtering mechanisms for film formation; a gas supplier for supplying a gas for plasma formation into the vacuum chamber; and a controller for outputting a control signal, in performing the film formation, such that magnet arrays of selected and unselected sputtering mechanisms, extension lines of moving paths of the magnet arrays thereof intersecting each other in plan view, move synchronously or are located at certain positions so as to be distinct from each other.

Abstract: A cultivation-target crop selection assisting apparatus 10 includes: an information collection unit 11 configured to collect information regarding a specific cultivated land; a prediction value calculation unit 12 configured to calculate a prediction value of actual performance of cultivation of one or a plurality of varieties of crops in the specific cultivated land by applying the information collected by the information collection unit 11 to a prediction model 14 created by performing machine learning on a relationship between information regarding a sample cultivated land and actual performance information regarding a crop produced in the sample cultivated land; and a crop selection unit 13 configured to select a crop that is suitable for being cultivated in the specific cultivated land based on the prediction value calculated for the one or plurality of varieties of crops.

Abstract: A management device used in a mounting system including multiple mounting-related devices in which a member is attached to one or more attachment sections, and a moving work device that moves between the multiple mounting-related devices to automatically attach and detach the member to and from the attachment sections, the management device including, when acquiring prohibition information including information on the attachment sections to and from which the member is not attachable and detachable by the moving work device from the mounting-related device, a management control section that creates an instruction list based on the prohibition information, in which an attachment and detachment instruction of the member for the attachment sections other than the attachment sections to and from which the member is not attachable and detachable is registered, and causes the moving work device to execute attachment and detachment processing of the member based on the instruction list.

Abstract: A system according to an embodiment includes storage battery modules, each comprising an assembled battery, a first wireless communication module to transmit and receive radio waves based on a BLE standard, and a battery monitoring unit configured to control operation of the first wireless communication module; and a battery management unit comprising second wireless communication modules to transmit and receive radio waves based on the BLE standard and an arithmetic processing device, wherein a first identifier is preset in the first wireless communication module, and when a connection is started, the first wireless communication module in which a value of a second identifier included in an advertising packet transmitted from the second wireless communication module is a value of the first identifier becomes a broadcaster and transmits the advertising packet.

Abstract: There is provided a solid-state imaging device capable of preventing the sensitivity difference from being generated between the pixels. The fixed imaging device of the present disclosure includes: a first pixel; and a second pixel located in a first direction of the first pixel, in which each of the first and second pixels includes a first transistor and a second transistor, and the first and second transistors in the second pixel are disposed periodically in the first direction with respect to the first and second transistors in the first pixel.

Abstract: An operation status display device displays an operation status of a board work machine, in which an operator replenishes an article to be used in production of a board product, and the operation status display device includes an acquisition section and a display section. The acquisition section is configured to acquire a first time, which is a wait time from when the article is insufficient in the board work machine to when the operator starts replenishment work of the article, and a second time, which is a work time from when the operator starts the replenishment work to when the article is replenished in the board work machine. The display section is configured to display the first time and the second time when the article is insufficient in the board work machine to when the article is replenished.

Abstract: In order to absorb collision energy so as to prevent an increase in reaction force against a pedestrian to a level higher than or equal to a certain level during collision, a bumper absorber of the present invention includes: a trunk part that extends in an X direction and that is simply compressed in the X direction in response to an impact; and a branch part that branches off from the trunk part toward a rear of a vehicle body, the branch part having a branching part in which the branch part branches off from the trunk part and which is provided with a breakage inducing part that causes breakage between the trunk part and the branch part in response to the impact.

Abstract: There is provided a substrate processing method for a substrate processing apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus comprises: a processing chamber; a placing stand provided inside the processing chamber, configured to place a substrate on a placing surface, and having a gas path; a freezing device having a contact surface to be in contact with or separated from a surface to be contacted of the placing stand and configured to cool the placing stand; a gas supply pipe connected to the gas path and configured to introduce a heat transfer gas; and a cooling part provided outside the processing chamber and connected to the gas supply pipe. The substrate processing method comprises: (a) cooling the heat transfer gas by the cooling part; and (b) supplying the cooled heat transfer gas between the placing surface and a back surface of the substrate from the gas path through the gas supply pipe.

Abstract: A method of cooling a substrate by bringing a cooler into direct contact with a stage on which the substrate is placed, and processing the substrate while rotating the stage in a state in which the cooler is moved away from the stage, includes: cooling the cooler to a target temperature in a state in which the stage is brought into direct contact with the cooler, and cooling the stage to an initial cooling temperature; raising a temperature of the stage; controlling the temperature of the stage to a steady cooling temperature when the temperature of the stage reaches the steady cooling temperature; and placing the substrate on the stage kept at the steady cooling temperature, and continuously performing a substrate processing on a plurality of substrates while rotating the stage in a state in which the stage is moved away from the cooler.

Abstract: An operation state display device displays an operation state of a board production facility in which a board is sequentially conveyed to multiple board work machines, which perform predetermined board work on the board, and the board work is sequentially performed to produce a board product, and includes an acquisition section and a display section. The acquisition section acquires an execution time zone in which setup changing work required for switching a type of the board product to be produced is performed, for each board work machine, based on production information acquired by the board production facility during production of the board product. The display section graphically displays at least one of the execution time zone for each of the multiple board work machines and the execution time zone for a predetermined board work machine of the board production facility in time series.

Abstract: An operation status display device displays an operation status of a board work machine, in which an operator replenishes an article to be used in production of a board product, and the operation status display device includes an acquisition section and a display section. The acquisition section is configured to acquire a first time, which is a wait time from when the article is insufficient in the board work machine to when the operator starts replenishment work of the article, and a second time, which is a work time from when the operator starts the replenishment work to when the article is replenished in the board work machine. The display section is configured to display the first time and the second time when the article is insufficient in the board work machine to when the article is replenished.

Abstract: A plant monitoring apparatus 100 includes: a soil state estimation unit 200 that estimates a state of soil by, with use of frequency association information calculated based on vibration measured via the soil, referencing soil state estimation information in which the frequency association information and information indicating states of the soil are associated with soil states; and a plant state estimation unit 300 that estimates a state of a plant by, with use of growth association information that was calculated based on vibration of the plant and indicates growth of the plant, referencing plant state estimation information in which the growth association information and information indicating states of the plant above a plant soil surface are associated with plant states above the plant soil surface.

Abstract: A plant monitoring apparatus 1 includes: an extraction unit 2 that extracts a feature amount in a frequency response of vibration of a target plant with use of the vibration; a calculation unit 3 that calculates a change that indicates growth of the plant, based on the extracted feature amount and a reference feature amount that corresponds to a reference state of the plant; and an estimation unit 4 that estimates a state of the plant by, with use of the calculated change, referencing state information in which changes of the feature amount from the reference feature amount corresponding to growth of the plant are associated with states of the plant.

Abstract: A film thickness measuring device includes: a stage on which a substrate is disposed; a light emitter/receiver configured to emit light for measuring a film thickness to the substrate disposed on the stage and receive a reflected light from the substrate disposed on the stage; a rotation mechanism configured to rotate the stage; an orientation detector configured to detect an orientation of the stage; and a controller. Based on a detection result by the orientation detector, the controller controls the rotation mechanism so that the orientation of the stage becomes a desired orientation when the substrate is disposed.