Abstract:
A developing device includes a developer transport body having a rotating outer peripheral surface, a magnet member having a plurality of magnetic poles, a regulation member that regulates passage of the developer supplied on the outer peripheral surface, and an introduction member having an opposing face opposing the outer peripheral surface to form an introduction space. A regulation-assist magnetic pole, of the magnetic poles, is provided at a position shifted from a position opposing the regulation member toward an upstream side in a rotating direction of the developer transport body. At least an upstream end of the opposing face is located on a virtual line obtained by translating a tangent line to the developer transport body at a position opposing the regulation member to an end of the regulation member opposing the developer transport body or located closer to the outer peripheral surface than the virtual line.
Abstract:
The parallel computing system is provided with: plural computing nodes that perform a computation; a management node that is connected to the plural computing nodes, and that manages parallel computing by the plural computing nodes; and an external memory that is connected to the management node, that is accessible from the management node and the plural computing nodes, and that uses a semiconductor memory as a memory medium. The management node allocates data to be processed to each of the computing nodes, and creates an individual data file for each of the computing nodes in the external memory, and each of the computing nodes performs a computation by accessing the external memory and by reading the data file allocated to itself and a different data file to be referenced in a computation using the allocated data file, and outputs a computation result to the external memory.
Abstract:
A particle behavior analysis system includes a calculation section that, regarding a decomposition portion decomposed in accordance with a decomposition method in a range to be analyzed, considers interaction force with another substance that acts on a particle and calculates behavior of the particle, while performing information communication with other devices; and an output processing section that switches output advisability of an analysis result obtained by the calculation section based on priority of the decomposition portion corresponding to the advisability of output processing of the analysis result.
Abstract:
A conveying arm for conveying a substrate while holding it with suction pads has, on the side of the conveying arm from which the suction pads extend, elastic members, such as flat springs, which are shorter than the suction pads. The flat springs are located above the tip ends of the suction pads when they hold the substrate and when the substrate is lowered to the work stage, the flat springs press any bent portions of the substrate down toward the work stage, which leads to flattening of surface of the substrate against the work stage so as to eliminate leakage of vacuum, used for suctioning the substrate against the work stage, from peripheral portions of the substrate. As a result, the substrate can be securely held on the work stage.