Abstract: An immersion lithographic projection apparatus is disclosed in which liquid is provided between a projection system of the apparatus and a substrate. The use of both liquidphobic and liquidphilic layers on various elements of the apparatus is provided to help prevent formation of bubbles in the liquid and to help reduce residue on the elements after being in contact with the liquid.

Abstract: A system for generating a lithographic image contains a alight source that emits a diverging light beam and a reflective concave curvilinear surface onto which the diverging light beam falls and which reflects the diverging beam in the form of a converging beam. A digital hologram, which is coded in accordance with the initial lithographic image either preliminarily or dynamically with the use of a spatial light modulator, is placed into the converging beam between the reflective surface and the image-receiving object. The image of an initial lithographic image formed on the image-receiving object is subsequently used in the processes of microlithography.

Abstract: A method of determining exposure dose of a lithographic apparatus used in a lithographic process on a substrate, the method comprising the steps: (a) receiving a substrate comprising first and second structures produced using the lithographic process; (b) detecting scattered radiation while illuminating the first structure with radiation to obtain a first scatterometer signal; (c) detecting scattered radiation while illuminating the second structure with radiation to obtain a second scatterometer signal; (d) using the first and second scatterometer signals to determine an exposure dose value used to produce said first and second structures wherein the first structure has a first periodic characteristic with spatial characteristics and yet at least another second periodic characteristic with spatial characteristics designed to be affected by the exposure dose and the second structure has a first periodic characteristic with spatial characteristics and yet at least another second periodic characteristic with sp

Abstract: Disclosed are an inspection method and apparatus and an associated lithographic apparatus. The inspection method comprises illuminating a structure with inspection radiation of a selected wavelength, the structure being of a type comprising a plurality of layers (for example a 3D memory structure). The resultant diffraction signal is detected a physical property of a subset of said layers is determined from said diffraction signal. The subset of layers for which said physical property is determined is dependent upon the selected wavelength of the inspection radiation.

Abstract: A vacuum linear feed-through (20), e.g., for an EUV lithography system, includes: a vacuum diaphragm bellows (21), which has a first end (21a) attaching a component and a second end (21b), opposite the first end, attaching to a vacuum housing, and an actuator device (27) generating a linear reciprocating motion of the bellows. The feed-through has at least one first shield (30, 30?), connected to the bellows at the first end, and at least one second shield (31, 31?), connected to the bellows at the second end. The first and second shield annularly surround the bellows, and the first and second shield overlap in the longitudinal direction of the bellows (21). At least one first shield and at least one second shield are formed of a permanently magnetic material, and/or the feed-through has a voltage-generating device (33) generating an electric field (E) between the first shield and the second shield.

Abstract: A method for aligning a semiconductor wafer is provided. The method includes providing the semiconductor wafer having two alignment marks formed on an active region or on an edge region of the semiconductor wafer. An included angle that is formed between the two alignment marks in a circumferential direction of the semiconductor wafer is between about 12 degrees and about 36 degrees. The method further includes receiving the detection signal reflected from at least one of the first alignment mark and the second alignment mark. The method also includes determining a parameter by a control system based on the received detection signal and moving the semiconductor wafer according to the parameter.

Abstract: A naphthalenedicarboximide derivative is represented by general formula (1) or (2). In general formulas (1) and (2), R1, R2, and R3 each represent, independently of one another, an alkyl group which has a carbon number from 1 to 10 and which may have an aryl group having a carbon number from 6 to 14, an aryl group which has a carbon number from 6 to 14 and which may have an alkyl group having a carbon number from 1 to 10, a cycloalkyl group having a carbon number from 3 to 10, or an alkoxy group having a carbon number from 1 to 6, and m represents an integer from 0 to 4. When m represents an integer of 2 or more, chemical groups R2 may each be the same or may each be different.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a toner which is able to inhibit the occurrence of fog, which is excellent in intermittent endurance, and which is excellent in followability during toner transfer and is thus excellent in top edge part uniformity in solid pattern printing. Disclosed is a toner for developing electrostatic images, comprising colored resin particles containing a binder resin, a colorant and a release agent, and an external additive, wherein static and kinetic friction coefficients obtained by measuring, using a 3-mm-diameter stainless-steel ball as a contactor, a 55-mm-diameter disk-shaped pellet obtained by pressing 4 g of the toner at 9 MPa for one minute, are 0.220 to 0.320 and 0.190 to 0.270, respectively, and a difference calculated by subtracting the kinetic friction coefficient from the static friction coefficient is 0.010 to 0.090.

Abstract: A toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin, a pigment, a pigment dispersant and an amorphous resin, in which the pigment dispersant has a rate of adsorption A1 (%) to the pigment of at least 80% and not more than 100%, the amorphous resin has a rate of adsorption A2 (%) to the pigment of at least 0% and not more than 60%, the binder resin has an Rf value (RfL) of at least 0.50 and not more than 1.00, and the amorphous resin has an Rf value (RfH) of at least 0.00 and not more than 0.35.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic carrier for an electrophotographic developer comprising spherical composite core particles comprising at least ferromagnetic iron oxide fine particles and a cured phenol resin, and having an average particle diameter of 20 to 60 ?m, the magnetic carrier for an electrophotographic developer satisfying the formula (1): ?1??0=?2 to 0 wherein ?0 represents a saturation magnetization (Am2/kg) of the carrier particles having a particle diameter in the vicinity of the average particle diameter of the magnetic carrier for an electrophotographic developer; and ?1 represents a saturation magnetization (Am2/kg) of the carrier particles having a particle diameter of less than 20 ?m, and a two-component system developer using the magnetic carrier.

Abstract: In the conventional toner save processing, in the case where the color of each element, such as a character, a graphics, and an image, constituting an image is a pale color or bright color, visual recognizability will be degraded even by maintaining the density of an edge portion of each element. An image processing apparatus that performs color material save processing to perform color printing while suppressing a color material consumption compared to that at the time of normal printing, includes an edge detection unit configured to detect an edge pixel constituting an edge of an object within input image data, and a density adjustment unit configured to convert the color of a detected edge pixel into an achromatic color and to decrease the density of the color of a non-edge pixel, which is a pixel other than the edge pixel of the object.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit configured to form a first image in a chromatic color, a second image forming unit configured to form a second image in black, an intermediate transfer member, a sensor, a first adjustment unit configured to adjust the image forming position for the black based on an adjustment value, a second adjustment unit configured to adjust image forming position based on an adjustment condition, and a generation unit configured to generate the adjustment condition. The generation unit generates a first adjustment condition based on a user instruction relating to a first test image having chromatic color on a sheet input from the input unit. The generation unit generates a second adjustment condition based on the reading result of the second test image having black on a sheet from a reading device.

Abstract: Techniques for liquid electrography printing are described herein. In at least some examples herein, a liquid electrographic printer includes a charging element for charging a photo imaging plate (PIP). A light source irradiates light onto the charge element. The irradiated light is to heat the charge element to a selected temperature.

Abstract: An example is a lens mirror array in which a plurality of optical elements, which comprises a first lens surface formed at the top of convex portion protruding outwards for converging light, a protrusion which includes a first mirror surface that reflects the light emitted from the first lens surface at the top and a light-shielding surface that has side walls at two sides thereof with respect to a light advancing direction and prevents advance of the light through the side walls, a second mirror surface that reflects the light reflected by the first mirror surface of the protrusion and a second lens surface that images the light emitted from the second mirror surface on an image plane, is arranged in a horizontal scanning direction.

Abstract: A print head includes: a mounting board; a light source portion that includes a plurality of light emitting elements provided on one surface of the mounting board; a drive member that is provided on other surface of the mounting board so as to generate a lighting signal and drive the light source portion; and a first temperature detector that is provided on the mounting board, and at least one second temperature detector that is provided at a farther position on the mounting board from the drive member than the first temperature detector; and the drive member includes: a light emitting unit that generates the lighting signal based on a temperature detected by the first temperature detector and a temperature detected by the second temperature detector; and an optical unit that forms an image of light emitted from the light emitting unit.

Abstract: A developing unit includes a developer bearing member that rotates and bears a developer including a toner and a carrier. A controller switches between a first mode and a second mode based on information which influences a toner charging amount. In the first mode, the developer bearing member rotates during a predetermined operation period from a command of an image forming operation until start of forming the electrostatic latent image. Meanwhile, in the second mode, a total number of rotations of the developer bearing member during the predetermined operation period is smaller than that in the first mode.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides developing member superior in triboelectric charge imparting ability to a toner. The developing member includes a substrate and a surface layer, the surface layer containing alumina particles and a resin, the surface layer having protrusions on the surface thereof. Each of the protrusions containing the alumina particles, part or all of the alumina particles being exposed at the surfaces of the protrusions, and the resin being interposed among the alumina particles.

Abstract: The developing apparatus includes: a developing roller rotatable in a first rotation direction; and a developer regulating member, wherein the developing roller includes: a substrate; an electro-conductive elastic layer on the substrate; and insulating domains on the electro-conductive elastic layer, wherein the electro-conductive elastic layer has a certain Martens hardness, the developing roller has a surface including surfaces of the insulating domains and a surface of the electro-conductive elastic layer, which is uncovered with the insulating domains at a certain area ratio, wherein the developer regulating member comprises: an abutting portion which is in contact with the surface of the developing roller, and a certain projection portion extending to an upstream side from the abutting portion in the first rotation direction, the developing apparatus has a certain gap between a side of the projection portion facing to the developing roller, and the surface of the developing roller.

Abstract: Provided is a powder transporting device including: a powder transport path through which a powder loading port, from which powder is loaded in the path, communicates with a powder unloading port disposed with being shifted in a horizontal direction from a position perpendicularly below the powder loading port, and which has a lateral direction transport path and a longitudinal-direction transport path, is disposed to be bent with respect to the lateral direction transport path; a powder transport member that includes a lateral direction transport member, which is movable along the lateral direction transport path, and a longitudinal-direction transport member and that transports powder along the lateral direction transport path and the longitudinal-direction transport path; a drive input portion that leaves a rotational track; and a regulation member that regulates the behavior of the powder transport member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, and a developing device including a developing container accommodating a one component developer including toner, and a developer detecting portion configured to detect the developer in the developing container. The developing device develops an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member with the toner. In addition, a developer supply portion supplies the developer into the developing container in accordance with a detection result of the developer detecting portion, and a controller controls developer supply means, in which a developer amount in the developing container when an image ratio of images formed by a predetermined number of image formations is a first image ratio is larger than the developer amount in the developing container when the image ratio of the images formed by a predetermined image formations is a second image ratio which is smaller than the first image ratio.

Abstract: A developer cartridge may include: a first gear having a small-diameter gear portion and a large-diameter gear portion; and a second gear including: a first columnar portion centered on a second axis; a second columnar portion having a smaller diameter than the first columnar portion; a first engagement portion extending along a portion of a peripheral surface of the first columnar portion and engageable with the small-diameter gear portion; a second engagement portion extending along a portion of a peripheral surface of the second columnar portion and positioned closer to a housing than the first engagement portion in an axial direction and engageable with the large-diameter gear portion; and a protruding portion protruding in the axial direction and rotatable together with the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion. The second engagement portion may engage the large-diameter gear portion after the first engagement portion engages the small-diameter gear portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion having a first feeding member to feed developer in a first chamber, a second feeding member to feed the developer in a second chamber; and a control portion to execute a plurality of modes by suspending image forming. A first mode circulates the developer in a condition in which a ratio of a rotational speed of the developer bearing member to a rotational speed of the first and second feeding members is decreased as compared to that in forming the images; and a second mode increases the ratio of the rotational speed of the developer bearing member to the rotational speed of the first feeding member as compared to that in forming the images. The second mode is executed after the first mode and before resuming the image forming operation.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that transfers a toner image to a medium being conveyed includes: an image carrier configured to carry the toner image; a transfer member configured to apply, to the medium being conveyed, a first AC voltage which is opposite in polarity to the toner image and on which a DC component and an AC component are superimposed, and transfer the toner image to the medium; a charge removing member configured to apply, to the medium being conveyed, a second AC voltage which is opposite in polarity to the first AC voltage and on which a DC component and an AC component are superimposed after the first AC voltage is applied to the medium; and a control unit configured to change a frequency of the second AC voltage when a distance between the medium being conveyed and the charge removing member becomes shorter than a predetermined distance.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit including a roller, a heating rotary member heating the roller, and a backup member forming a nip portion, a temperature detection unit detecting a temperature of the heating rotary member, and a control unit for controlling power so that the detected temperature is maintained at a target temperature, wherein a print job includes a first step in which the unfixed toner image is formed on the recording material, a second step in which fixing processing is executed, and a third step in which the fixing unit is cleaned, and wherein the third step is executed following the second step, and in the third step, while the target temperature is set higher than the target temperature in the second step, the roller and the heating rotary member are rotated in a state where no recording material is present at the nip portion.

Abstract: The smoothness of a toner layer is reduced and thus the gloss of a resulting print is reduced. A single toner, the original high gloss version, is enabled to print all images. A finishing option is provided which, through application of a combination of heat and pressure with a textured roller, reduces the specular gloss of the toner surface by imprinting a high frequency texture onto the smooth toner layer. By adjusting the temperature/pressure of the textured roller, the effective gloss of the press can be adjusted through software as desired.

Abstract: A fixing device including fixing belt, a heat source to heat the fixing belt, a rotating member in engagement with an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt, a nip forming member to pressurize the fixing belt, thereby forming a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the rotating member, and sliding members on both ends of the fixing belt and rotated together with the fixing belt. A rotation center of each of the sliding members is on an upstream side compared to a rotation center of the rotating member along a feeding direction of a printing medium, and a shortest distance between a tangential line of an outer circumferential surface of each of the sliding members and the rotation center of the rotating member is equal to or greater than a shortest distance between the fixing nip and the rotation center of the rotating member.

Abstract: A fusing device and an image forming apparatus are provided. The fusing device includes a fusing belt provided to be rotatable, a pressing member disposed to face the fusing belt, wherein the pressing member and the fusing belt form a fusing nip, a heat source disposed inside the fusing belt, wherein the heat source is disposed at a side of the fusing nip, a guide member including a heat source seat, on which the heat source is mounted, and configured to guide rotation of the fusing belt, and a pressing support member provided at one side of the heat source seat and configured to press the heat source toward the other side opposite the one side of the heat source seat.

Abstract: A fixing apparatus includes a heating rotating member, a nip portion forming member, and a pressure member which, together with a first surface of the nip portion forming member, sandwiches the heating rotating member to form a nip portion. A plurality of grooves is provided on the first surface of the nip portion forming member, so that a size of an area in which the first surface of the nip portion forming member is in contact with the heating rotating member in an upstream area of the nip portion is less than a size of the area in a downstream area of the nip portion with respect to a center of the nip portion in a rotation direction of the heating rotating member. In addition, each groove of the plurality of grooves extends in a direction crossing the rotation direction of the heating rotating member.

Abstract: Provided is an image-forming apparatus that prevents a drop in processing speed even when a preceding job is interrupted by a simple job (interrupt job). The image-forming apparatus includes a printer unit that prints on paper, a first transporting path that passes by the printer unit, a second transporting path that path branches off from the first transporting path and moves paper that has been turned over from front to back further upstream than the printer unit, a storage unit that stores a condition table indicates conditions for which a preceding job can be interrupted by an interrupt job, and a system-control unit that references the condition table, and when the preceding job can be interrupted, sets a printing order so that printing of the interrupt job is inserted into the printing order of the preceding job.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion for forming an image, a human presence sensor for detecting presence of a human body adjacent the apparatus, and a controller capable of executing an adjustment process operation for the image forming portion when a first predetermined number of prints are produced. When the human presence sensor detects a human body in the neighborhood of the apparatus, the execution of the adjustment process operation is deferred to reduce the waiting time necessitated by the adjustment operation, but if a second predetermined number of prints are produced, the image forming operation of the image forming portion is interrupted, and the deferred adjustment process is executed.

Abstract: A motor control apparatus that performs a drive control of a motor includes a current detector configured to detect a driving current flowing in a winding of the motor, a calculator configured to calculate an estimated value indicating a rotational position of a rotor of the motor by an estimation computation based on a value of the driving current detected by the current detector, and a corrector configured to correct the estimated value of the rotational position based on a rotation amount of the rotor in a predetermined period from a start of the estimation computation by the calculator until completion of the estimation computation. In addition, a controller controls the driving current flowing in the winding of the motor so that a deviation between the estimated value corrected by the corrector and an instructed value indicating a target position of the rotor is reduced.

Abstract: According to the embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a writing unit, and a processor. The processor forms a first image again on a third sheet, when the writing unit does not succeed in writing information in a wireless tag of a first sheet, on which the first image is formed by the image forming unit. Further, the processor discharges the third sheet prior to a second sheet, on which a second image is formed, the second image being next to the first image.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including a process unit to form a developer image on a sheet, a fuser to convey the sheet and fix the developer image on the sheet by the process unit, a first roller to convey the sheet exiting the fuser to be ejected outside a body of the image forming apparatus, and a driving unit to drive the first roller, is provided. The driving unit drives the first roller at a circumferential velocity higher than a sheet-conveying velocity to convey the sheet by the fuser. The driving unit increases the circumferential velocity of the first roller to be higher as the sheet-conveying velocity to convey the sheet by the fuser is higher.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises an image forming section; a fixing device; an input section; a storage section which stores a target temperature of the fixing device in a case of carrying out the fixing processing and a target temperature of the fixing device in a case of carrying out the erasing processing; and a control section which controls to read out lower one of the target temperature of the fixation and the target temperature of the erasure from the storage section to set the lower one to the target temperature of the fixing device in a case in which the processing information of the fixing processing and the erasing processing is input by the input section and the processing is continuously carried out, and drive the fixing device via the driving section at a driving speed corresponding to each of the fixing processing and the erasing processing.

Abstract: A fixing apparatus includes: a heating member that has an outer circumferential surface to be driven in a circulative manner and heats a sheet; a heat radiation suppression member that covers a part of an outer circumferential surface of the heating member to have a predetermined gap and suppresses heat radiation, wherein the heat radiation suppression member has a movable part capable of moving to a first position and a second position more distant than the first position from a part covered by the heating member; a moving unit that moves the movable part to the first position or the second position; a jam detection unit that detects a jam of a sheet in the vicinity of the downstream side end portion of the nip part; and a control unit that controls the moving unit such that the movable part is moved from the first position to the second position.

Abstract: A printing system includes a printing control apparatus and a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives data transmitted from the printing control apparatus, and a power source control unit that causes the printing apparatus to enter a first power saving state or a second power saving state. The printing control apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a power state of the printing apparatus, and a control unit that causes the printing control apparatus to enter an OFF state in a case where a acquired power state is the first power saving state, and causes the printing control apparatus to enter a power saving state where a wake-up packet for recovering the printing apparatus from the second power saving state can be transmitted in a case where the acquired power state is the second power saving state.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charger, a developing device, a transfer device, a scraper, and a controller. The controller performs an image formation process to form the developer image on the photosensitive member by using the developing device. The controller acquires, as a first value, at least one of a value of the charging current flowing in the charger and a value of the transferring current flowing in the transfer device. The controller calculates an accumulation current value by using result of an integral of a second value over time. The second value is an absolute value of the first value. The controller performs a scraping process in which the scraper scrapes the photosensitive member when the accumulation current value reaches a threshold value.

Abstract: In a developing cartridge, a drive-force receiving member includes: a first cylindrical part having a gear part transmitting drive force to a developing roller; a second cylindrical part disposed radially inward of the first cylindrical part and in contact with a support part; and a receiving part receiving drive force from outside of the developing cartridge. The receiving part is disposed outward of the first and second cylindrical parts in an axial direction in which a rotational axis extends. The receiving part has an internal space in communication with a gap between the first and second cylindrical parts. The receiving part is disposed to overlap the gap between the first and second cylindrical parts when the receiving part is viewed in the axial direction. The receiving part has an outward end in the axial direction, at least part of the outward end of the receiving part being closed.

Abstract: A developing cartridge includes: a casing; a developer carrier; and a receiving member. The casing includes a support portion. The receiving member receives a drive force from an external drive source to transmit the drive force to the developer carrier. The receiving member has a cylindrical configuration. The support portion rotatably supports the receiving member. The receiving member includes: a receiving portion; a transmission portion; and a fitting portion. The receiving portion has an outer edge in a radial direction of the receiving member. The transmission portion defines an outer circumferential edge of the receiving member. The fitting portion is positioned inward of the transmission portion in the radial direction and fitted with the support portion. The outer edge of the receiving portion is positioned inward of the transmission portion in the radial direction and outward of the fitting portion in the radial direction.

Abstract: A developing cartridge includes: a casing configured to store developer; a developing roller configured to rotate about a first axis extending in a first direction; a shaft provided at one end of the casing in the first direction; and an electrode configured to rotate about the shaft and supply power to the developing roller. The shaft extends in the first direction and has a peripheral surface. The electrode has a first protrusion configured to rotate together with the electrode, the first protrusion extending along a portion of the peripheral surface of the shaft. The electrode has a second protrusion extending along the peripheral surface of the shaft, the second protrusion being spaced apart from the first protrusion in the rotating direction. The first protrusion has a first length in the rotating direction, and the second protrusion has a second length different from the first length in the rotating direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cartridge attachable/detachable to/from an apparatus body of an image forming apparatus. A bearing member for pivotally supports a rotation member has an engaged portion that is arranged at a part on one end side of the cartridge in a direction of a rotational axis of the rotation member and engaged with an engaging portion provided in the apparatus body. An engagement state between the engaged portion and the engaging portion is maintained until at least a coupling of the rotation member is coupled to a driving shaft provided in the apparatus body in a process of attaching the cartridge to the apparatus body. A movement of the bearing member to at least the other end side in the direction of the rotational axis with respect to the apparatus body is restricted when the engaged portion and the engaging portion are put into the engagement state.

Abstract: A method for single-write holographic imaging involves determining a layout of a plurality of holographic images on a substrate, the plurality of holographic images including at least a first holographic image having a first parameter set and a second holographic image having a second parameter set, inputting the parameter sets into a database and controlling an imaging apparatus to image the first and second holographic images on the substrate in a single session to create an integrated holographic pattern.

Abstract: A device for producing a subwavelength hologram. The device comprises a metasurface layer attached to a substrate. The metasurface layer includes an array of plasmonic antennas that simultaneously encode both wavelength and phase information of light directed through the array to produce a hologram. The wavelength is determined by the size of the antennas, and the phase is determined by the orientation of the antennas.

Abstract: An electronic device has a housing and a rotatable and translatable input mechanism. The housing has an aperture and the rotatable and translatable input mechanism has a shaft positioned at least partially within the aperture and a manipulation structure coupled to the shaft. The manipulation structure may be manipulated to rotationally and translationally move the shaft to provide rotational and translational input to the electronic device. A compressible seal is positioned in a gap between the housing and the rotatable and translatable input mechanism. The compressible seal may resist and/or prevent passage of contaminants into the aperture and/or obscure one or more internal components. The compressible seal may be configured to collapse or bend when the rotatable and translatable member translates.

Abstract: In order to make a system for fastening gems to a watch dial, the dial is made of an upper plate-shaped element and of a lower plate-shaped element facing each other, the upper plate-shaped element being provided with openings for housing the gems in a visible manner and the lower plate-shaped element being provided with openings at the openings of the upper element and having the same size as these latter. Each of the openings mutually facing by pairs extends across the thickness of the respective plate-shaped element with an own peripheral edge inclined so that each opening narrows, within the section of the respective plate-shaped element, going from the surface of the plate-shaped element facing the other plate-shaped element towards the opposite surface thereof for forming a seat for housing and retaining a gem between the two elements.

Abstract: A switch device including a case which is provided with a through hole and has a built-in module, a cylindrical member which is attached to the through hole of the case and whose inner end portion protrudes inside the case and is held in the module and outer end portion protrudes outside the case, and an operation member including a shaft section which is arranged inside the cylindrical member in a manner to be slidable in an axial direction of the cylindrical member so as to operate the module and a head section which is provided on an outer end portion of the shaft section and covers and slidably holds the outer end portion of the cylindrical member.

Abstract: A radio timepiece, including: a satellite radio wave receiver; a ground wave receiver; a memory; and a controller, wherein the controller performs area determination operation of determining whether a current position is located within a geographical range where the ground wave receiver is capable of acquiring notice information regarding implementation/non-implementation of the leap second adjustment, when the controller determines that the current position is located within the geographical range, the controller controls the ground wave receiver to acquire the notice information, the controller determines, with the notice information, whether the leap second adjustment is scheduled to be implemented at an implementation candidate timing of the leap second adjustment, and when the controller determines that the leap second adjustment is scheduled to be implemented, the controller changes the leap second correction information at or after the implementation candidate timing.

Abstract: A timing signal generating device includes a GPS receiver and a processing unit. The GPS receiver functions as a positioning calculation unit, and receives satellite signals transmitted from GPS satellites and performs positioning calculation based on trajectory information and time information contained in the received satellite signals. Further, the processing unit functions as a position information generation unit, and generates position information of a receiving point based on a mode value or a median value in results of the positioning calculation at a plurality of times by the GPS receiver.

Abstract: A smart watch is provided. The smart watch includes: a dial having two ends; a first watchband; a second watchband, the first watchband and the second watchband being connected to the two ends of the dial, respectively; an RF (Radio Frequency) transceiver circuit built in the dial; a feeder arranged on a surface of the first watchband or arranged inside the first watchband; and a conductive connecting member connected to an end of the first watchband and having a non-closed structure, wherein the conductive connecting member is operable as an antenna to connect with the RF transceiver circuit via the feeder and as a first watchband connector to connect the first watchband and the second watchband.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, a circuit arrangement is described that has a plurality of components requiring a supply. Each component requiring a supply is set up to output a signal that indicates a subsequent power requirement of the component requiring a supply. The circuit arrangement further has a control device that is set up to take the signals as a basis for ascertaining a value that represents a subsequent power requirement of the plurality of components requiring a supply, to ascertain whether the value satisfies a prescribed criterion, and to control the operation of the components requiring a supply on the basis of whether the value satisfies the prescribed criterion.