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A schedule management system and method of displaying a schedule of at least a part of a plurality of users on a schedule management apparatus includes a display screen and an input device, and manages personal schedule information registered for each of the plurality of users. The method includes obtaining user identification information which uniquely identifies each of said specified plurality of users, displaying a sum schedule input area on said display screen to input a common schedule to said specified plurality of users in response to said operation, detecting that schedule information including a schedule starting time and a schedule ending time has been inputted in said sum schedule input area, generating a sum schedule number corresponding to the schedule information inputted in said sum schedule input area, registering schedule information inputted in said sum schedule input area as personal schedule information of each of said specified plurality of users and registering said sum schedule number in correlation to said personal schedule information, and displaying a schedule of at least a part of said specified plurality of users based on the personal schedule information of said at least a part of said plurality of users.

A dynamic vibration absorber (1) includes: a weight (2); a frame body (3) which surrounds the weight (2); a total of four pairs of vertically mounted U-shaped leaf springs (4, 5, 6 and 7) which are interposed between the frame body (3) and the weight (2) so as to hold the weight (2) with respect to the frame body (3) movably with respect to all directions in a horizontal plane and immovably in a vertical direction (V); and a damping mechanism 8 for damping the vibration of the weight (2) in the horizontal plane.

An image output controller is capable of directly or indirectly controlling a printer printing a color chart and a color measuring apparatus carrying out color measurement for the color chart. When color authentication is executed for an optionally set image, a process is carried out in relation to user's setting or automatic optimization including at least one of a printing position of the color chart, a layout of the color chart and a color value of the color chart. The printer is controlled according to a printing condition based on the user's setting or the automatic optimization so that the color chart is printed on a sheet of predetermined printing paper. The color measuring apparatus is controlled so as to carry out color measurement for the printed color chart.

The invention provides an image storage and display system including: an image storage server that includes an image file storing unit for storing image data; and image display terminals that are connected to the image storage server via a network and display an image sent from the image storage server. In the image storage and display system, the image storage server includes: an information managing unit that acquires and manages information on a system including at least one of environmental information and operation information of the system; and an image file compressing unit that sets an optimum compression ratio on the basis of the information to compress the image and stores the image in the image file storing unit. According to the constitution, it is possible to reduce time for, for example, adjustment of a compression ratio of an image by a user or a service person by automatically optimizing the compression ratio.

This invention relates to a SEM system constructed to create imaging recipes or / and measuring recipes automatically and at high speed, and improve inspection efficiency and an automation ratio, and to a method using the SEM system; a method for creation of imaging recipes and measuring recipes in the SEM system is adapted to include, in a recipe arithmetic unit, the steps of evaluating a tolerance for an imaging position error level at an evaluation point, evaluating a value predicted of the imaging position error level at the evaluation point when any region on circuit pattern design data is defined as an addressing point, and determining an imaging recipe and a measuring recipe on the basis of a relationship between the tolerance for the imaging position error level at the evaluation point and the predicted value of the imaging position error level at the evaluation point.

A wire structure for a power supply. It includes a power supply having a casing on which a wire structure is transfixed out for outputting the power source. The wire structure is composed of a cluster of connection wires, a motherboard power cord, and at least one power cord set. The cluster of connection wires is provided with a plurality of connection seats for connecting with the power cord set, and the other end of the power cord set is provided with a power connector corresponding to future expanded equipments and elements for various different specifications.

A contactless potentiometer includes a shaft and a magnet rotatable together with the shaft and detects a rotational angle of the shaft corresponding to a change in magnetic fields caused by the rotation of the magnet, the magnet being held in a tip end portion of the shaft. The potentiometer includes a cover member attached to a housing at a tip end side of the shaft and arranged to define a closed sensor area between the cover member and the housing, and a circuit board mounted to the cover member at a side of the sensor area in a perpendicular or substantially perpendicular relationship with the shaft. The cover member includes a recess portion arranged on a surface of the cover member facing the circuit board, the recess portion cooperating with the circuit board to define a component-mounting spare space.

A coating film forming apparatus for forming a film by applying a coating solution to a substrate, which is provided with a cassette section, coating unit, developing unit, pre-treatment / post-treatment units and a main arm for transferring the substrate between the respective units. In the coating unit, provided is a coating section in which a resist is applied on the substrate in a manner of single stroke by intermittently moving the substrate in a Y-direction and by moving a nozzle in an X-direction, and provided is a reduced-pressure drying section for drying under reduced pressure the substrate after being applied, and further provided is equipment for removing the coating film adhered to a periphery of the substrate. Additionally, when the reduced-pressure drying section is arranged outside the coating unit, the main arm is covered with a cover so that the inside thereof is under a solvent atmosphere.

A processing cell of automatic machining system configured in that it is easy to decide or change the number of steps and to design, and to reduce the installation cost. The control unit of the processing cell comprises an operation data storing means for storing every position necessary data for operation at each position of the processing cell installed in the machining section of the automatic machining system, and a position designating means for designating the after-installation position. The control unit reads necessary data for operation out of the operation data storing means in accordance with the position designated by the position designating means. Thus, the operation of each cell can be switched in accordance with the position, and the processing cells can be easily changed in position and adjusted in quantity.

A shielding member includes a shielding plate for covering a part of a heat exchanger, heat transfer tube engagement sections for engaging with heat transfer tubes of the heat exchanger, fin engagement portions for engaging with fins of the heat exchanger, a bypass preventing rib for preventing air from being directed to the part of the heat exchanger, and a mismounting preventing portion for preventing the shielding member from being mounted on a heat exchanger that does not require blocking of air flow. The heat exchanger in which the part covered with the shielding member has no heat exchanging function is manufactured with the same components as those of a heat exchanger on which the shielding member is not mounted and the whole of which has a heat exchanging function.

An apparatus for successively making plastic bags of plastic film, each of the plastic bags having a size, comprising an upstream feeder by which superposed layers of plastic film are fed intermittently along an upstream feeding path for a length which is N times as much as the size of plastic bag and at a cycle number; a heat sealer disposed in the upstream feeding path, the layers of plastic film being heat sealed by the heat seal means whenever being fed intermittently to obtain N times in number of plastic bags; a downstream feeder by which the layers of plastic film are fed intermittently along a downstream feeding path for a length corresponding to the size of plastic bag and at a cycle number which is N times as many as the cycle number of the upstream feeder, after being heat sealed by the heat sealer; a cutter disposed in the downstream feeding path, the layers of plastic film being cut by the cutter whenever being fed intermittently; and an accumulator disposed between the upstream and downstream feeding paths, the layers of plastic film being accumulated temporarily by the accumulator whenever being fed intermittently by the upstream feeding means, the layers of plastic film being then supplied from the accumulator whenever being fed intermittently by the downstream feeder; wherein N is an integer equal to or greater than 2.

A transport system of this disclosure includes a transporter for forming a plurality of transport paths from a transport source to a transport destination and transporting a work via a transport path selected from the plurality of transport paths, a controller for controlling the transport, and a reader for, when the work has arrived at a branch point in the transport path, reading out, from a storage medium, transport path information representing a transport direction of the work at the branch point in the transport path, the storage medium being provided on the work and storing the transport path information. The controller controls the transport to transport the work in the transport direction of the work at the branch point represented by the transport path information read out by the reader.

An attachment structure between an exterior member and a posterior attaching component to be attached to the exterior member includes: the exterior member that has a tube body shape and is included in a wire harness that has one or a plurality of conductive paths, the exterior member covering the conductive path. The exterior member includes a straight tube section that has a straight shape and is an attachment target section of the posterior attaching component. Multiple protrusions are formed on an outer surface of the straight tube section and include a plurality of protrusion groups arranged in rows, each of the plurality of protrusion groups includes the protrusions arranged at predetermined pitches in a tube axial direction, and the multiple protrusions are configured to be inserted into an annular wall of the posterior attaching component.

A coating film forming apparatus for forming a film by applying a coating solution to a substrate, which is provided with a cassette section, coating unit, developing unit, pre-treatment / post-treatment units and a main arm for transferring the substrate between the respective units. In the coating unit, provided is a coating section in which a resist is applied on the substrate in a manner of single stroke by intermittently moving the substrate in a Y-direction and by moving a nozzle in an X-direction, and provided is a reduced-pressure drying section for drying under reduced pressure the substrate after being applied, and further provided is equipment for removing the coating film adhered to a periphery of the substrate. Additionally, when the reduced-pressure drying section is arranged outside the coating unit, the main arm is covered with a cover so that the inside thereof is under a solvent atmosphere.

The liquid surface position of the melt in the crucible in the silicon single crystal growth process utilizing the Czochralski method is monitored using the melt surface position on the occasion of seeding as a reference position and an estimated melt surface position can be calculated according to every situation, so that the distance between the melt and the thermal shield or water-cooling structure can be controlled with high precision. When the estimated melt surface position passes a preset upper limit and approaches the thermal shield, an alarm goes off and, further, when the melt comes into contact with the thermal shield or approaches the water-cooling structure, an alarm goes off if desired and, at the same time, the crucible is forcedly stopped from moving, so that a serious accident such as steam-incurred explosion resulting from the melt coming into contact with the water-cooling structure can be prevented. Accordingly, the apparatus can be widely applied as a melt surface position monitoring apparatus making it possible to safely operate any silicon single crystal growth apparatus utilizing the Czochralski method.

A wire structure for a power supply. It includes a power supply having a casing on which a wire structure is transfixed out for outputting the power source. The wire structure is composed of a cluster of connection wires, a motherboard power cord, and at least one power cord set. The cluster of connection wires is provided with a plurality of connection seats for connecting with the power cord set, and the other end of the power cord set is provided with a power connector corresponding to future expanded equipments and elements for various different specifications.

A substrate carrying device reduces time necessary for conducting changing work for changing the types of flat panel displays or the like. A substrate support member (10) has a support body (11) provided with an outer peripheral part (11a), which is joined to an inner peripheral part (21b) of an extension support member (20) to connect the substrate support member (10) to the extension support member (20). Only by the substrate support member (10) is used for supporting a small glass substrate (41) to carry the small glass substrate (41). A combination of the substrate support member (10) and the extension support member (20) is used for supporting a large glass substrate (41′) to carry the large glass substrate (41′).

A control device which performs at least MPPT control of output of a solar cell mounted in a vehicle includes a determination unit that determines whether the vehicle is in a travelling state or a stationary state. Different methods are applied when the vehicle is determined to be in the travelling state and in the stationary state respectively.

An all-terrain vehicle, which limits a speed of backward movement of the vehicle to a predetermined speed and which assures a necessary power output while limiting the backward speed, without a driver's taking any manual trouble to operate a switch to control an engine of the vehicle, even though a high load is exerted upon the vehicle. The all-terrain vehicle includes a vehicle speed sensor device, a backward movement positional sensor device, and an engine controller for limiting the engine speed of the vehicle when the backward movement positional sensor device detects that the vehicle is running backward and when the vehicle speed sensor device detects that the vehicle speed reaches a predetermined value, thereby limiting the speed of the vehicle running backward.

In order to cope with changes of communication environments of subcarriers and effectively use the subcarrier with channel quality information in a wireless communication system, a base station identifies a condition of a communication environment between the base station and a mobile station based upon channel quality information transmitted from the mobile station and maps transmission information on control of communication selectively to a specified subcarrier used for transmission based upon the identified condition of the communication environment.

A transport system of this invention includes a transport means for forming a plurality of transport paths from a transport source to a transport destination and transporting a work via a transport path selected from the plurality of transport paths, a control means for controlling the transport means, and a read means for, when the work has arrived at a branch point in the transport path, reading out, from a storage medium, transport path information representing a transport direction of the work at the branch point in the transport path, the storage medium being provided on the work and storing the transport path information. The control means controls the transport means to transport the work in the transport direction of the work at the branch point represented by the transport path information read out by the read means.

An injection molding apparatus is on the basis of a hydraulic injection molding device, and the apparatus includes an electric motor, a torque variable mechanism that changes output torque by the electric motor, and a screw driving unit that transmits the output torque by the torque variable mechanism to a screw. The screw is turned by the electric motor, the torque variable mechanism, and the screw driving unit. The torque variable mechanism applies, to the screw, torque equivalent to a hydraulic drive.