An extensible pesticide applicator is provided enabling application of both liquid and powdered insecticides to distal, out-of-reach areas. An extensible pole has a distal and a proximal end for manual wielding whereby a pair of nozzles is deployable proximal an out-of-reach habitat. Pressurization of ambient atmosphere into the extensible pole is enabled by a pump member and timed release of the pressurized ambient atmosphere to forcibly eject powdered and alternately liquid pesticide from the distal end is enabled by manual action effected to depress a trigger member. Direct application of pesticide is thereby enabled to distal and out-of-reach habitat without a user coming into proximity with the habitat or the pesticide released.

Embodiments of the invention include systems, methods and apparatus for pre-cleaning a substrate after chemical mechanical planarization processing. Embodiments provide a housing; a chuck assembly configured to securely hold a substrate within the housing; and a buffing pad assembly configured to rotate against the substrate while supported within the housing. The buffing pad assembly includes a buff pad, a compressible sub-pad coupled to the buff pad, and a pad holder coupled to the compressible sub-pad and a buffing motor configured to rotate the buffing pad assembly. Numerous additional aspects are disclosed.

A sponge roller is made of a polyvinyl acetal porous resin material having elasticity in a wet state, includes a roller in an approximate cylinder form and a plurality of protrusions formed integrally on an outer peripheral surface of the roller, and rotates the multiple protrusions to make contact with a surface to be cleaned so as to clean the surface. The polyvinyl acetal porous resin material constituting the sponge roller contains a cationic functional group.

Provided are a modified polybenzoxazole and a modified polybenzoxazole sheet each having small temperature dependence of its modulus of elasticity, each of which may be suitably used for forming a cleaning sheet that may be suitably used for a transfer member to be transferred in a substrate processing apparatus. Also provided is a cleaning sheet having small temperature dependence of its modulus of elasticity, including such modified polybenzoxazole sheet as a cleaning layer. Also provided is a transfer member provided with a cleaning function, including such cleaning sheet and a transfer member. The modified polybenzoxazole is a modified polybenzoxazole, including a benzoxazole ring structure and two or more amide groups, the modified polybenzoxazole having a storage modulus of elasticity at 1 Hz in a range of 0° C. to 100° C. of 200 MPa to 2,000 MPa.

A method for efficiently decontaminating surfaces is provided comprising applying an indicator to a surface wherein the indicator provides an observable or machine readable response when a contamination is present on the surface, wherein the response is located relative to a location of the contamination; and decontaminating the location of the contamination, and optionally rechecking the location of the initial contamination post decontamination to ensure that the surface is free of contamination.

Even if the end surface of the optical connector is inclined with respect to the optical axis of the optical fiber, the optical connector end surface cleaner has sufficient cleaning ability and has high tape conveyance property when the cleaning tape is conveyed and displaced. Further, in the case where there are guide pins protruding from the end surface of the optical connector, an optical connector end surface cleaner is provided which has a cleaning capability for the optical connector end surface and the guide pins.

An optical connector end surface cleaner according to the present invention is an optical connector end surface cleaner for cleaning an end surface of an optical connector, the optical connector end surface cleaner comprising: a cleaning tape for cleaning the end surface of the optical connector in contact therewith; a cleaning head for supporting a rear surface of the cleaning tape in contact with an end surface of the optical connector when the cleaning tape is in contact with the end surface of the optical connector; and a tape supply mechanism for supplying the cleaning tape to the cleaning head, wherein the cleaning head includes at least a cleaning head distal end member, a cleaning head buffering member, and a cleaning head supporting member, and a storage elastic modulus E1 of the cleaning head buffering member at 40° C. measured in accordance with JIS K7244-4 with a frequency of 1 Hz is lower than a storage elastic modulus E2 of the cleaning head distal end member at 40° C. and a storage elastic modulus E3 of the cleaning head supporting member at 40° C. similarly measured.

A cleaning system for cleaning a media transport device includes a cleaning substrate sized and configured to be inserted within at least a portion of a media travel pathway of a media transport device. The cleaning substrate comprises a cleaning face, along with a handle extending from the cleaning face. The handle is positioned to remain outside of the media transport device while the cleaning face is within the media transport device. The cleaning face comprises a plurality of cleaning elements, each of which is positioned to align with a belt, a drive roller, an idle roller, a drive roller/idle roller pair, or a sensor of the media transport device when the cleaning substrate within the media travel pathway. Methods of using a handled cleaning substrate are also disclosed.

An automatic and currentless dirt remover for collecting dirt from the area surrounding the dirt remover, having a dirt-collecting body and a rolling-action sheath body, which defines a receiving space for receiving the dirt-collecting body. The sheath body has openings for providing external access to the dirt-collecting body, which has a surface that collects the dirt.

A substrate cleaning roll that has a cylindrical shape and scrubs a surface of a substrate by rotating about a rotational axis in a longitudinal direction in contact with the substrate, the longitudinal direction being parallel to the surface of the substrate, the substrate cleaning roll including a bevel cleaner at least at one end of the substrate cleaning roll in the longitudinal direction, the bevel cleaner including a sloping surface to be in contact with an outermost edge of a bevel portion at a rim of the substrate when the substrate cleaning roll comes into contact with the substrate and cleans the surface of the substrate.

An adjustable brush treatment device has a flexible attachment between two lobes or textured portions. Each portion has a textured surface adapted for rinsing or cleaning cosmetic brushes, and an opposite surface adapted for placement of the device in a working area with the textured surfaces presented for engagement with a brush head or applicator. A tab or coupling member is provided for coupling the device about a user's hand, with the textured surfaces presented on opposite sides.