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An ink tank is provided which can efficiently perform detection of information in an ink tank such as an ink residual amount in the ink tank with a simple configuration in which it is unnecessary to set wiring or the like. A solid semiconductor element, which is provided with an acquiring unit for acquiring environmental information of the outside, an information storing unit, a discriminating unit for comparing acquired information and stored information to make a determination, and an information communicating unit for displaying the acquired information or communicating the acquired information to the outside, is embedded in an outer wall of an ink tank such that the solid semiconductor element is exposed to an internal side and an external side of the ink tank from the outer wall. The solid semiconductor element can perform supply of its operation energy or exchanges of signals in a non-contact state or by connecting with a terminal provided in a supporting portion or the like of the ink tank directly, thus, it is unnecessary to set wiring. In this case, the information acquiring means can be preferably disposed in the part of the solid semiconductor element exposed to the inside of the ink tank.

The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for presenting restaurant items for ordering through a customer ordering kiosk, comprising the steps of displaying a list of restaurant items within an ordering interface screen, receiving a selection signal indicating one or more of the restaurant items has been selected, displaying one or more of the selected restaurant items within an order cart interface screen and receiving a selection signal indicating a selector box corresponding to the ingredient option has been selected. Each of the selected restaurant items includes at least one selector box representing an ingredient option for the selected restaurant item that the customer can interact with to customize the amount of that ingredient on the selected restaurant item. If the customer elects to remove an ingredient from the restaurant item, the selected ingredient option is highlighted to indicate that it is omitted from the restaurant item.

An apparatus and method for Equivalent Public Land Mobile Network (EPLMN) list management in a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes receiving a message from a network after storing an EPLMN list having at least one PLMN entry, determining whether an EPLMN list is present in the received message, and performing EPLMN list management by maintaining, when an EPLMN list is not present in the received message, the stored EPLMN list. As a result, the mobile terminal may retain an accurate EPLMN list and efficiently perform cell selection / reselection.

The cell selection apparatus includes: a cell selection vessel which has a pair of electrodes and a sheet-like insulating material having a plurality of micropores, with a recognition molecule bindable to the specific substance being disposed on a bottom face of the micropore; and a power supply, wherein the power supply includes a cell-immobilization power supply and a cell-taking power supply. The cell selection method uses the cell selection apparatus, including; introducing cells into a cell selection area; immobilizing these cells in the micropores; effecting a binding reaction between the specific substance and the recognition molecule; thereafter, taking out a cell of which the specific substance is not or is weakly bound to the recognition molecule, from the micropore; otherwise alternatively, leaving a cell of which the specific substance on the surface of the cell is strongly bound to the recognition molecule, behind in the micropore.

An optical connector that requires no complicated fabrication operation such as highly accurate optical axis alignment and that permits an efficient pick up of part of the communication signal light being on-propagation along an optical transmission line, is provided. The optical connector 1 for connecting optical transmission lines each other is comprised of at least a connector main body 16 and a joining element 5 provided inside the connector main body 16 being interposed between the optical transmission lines and coupled to each end face of the optical transmission lines, wherein the joining element 5 is comprised of a core 3 and a cladding 4 provided on the periphery of the core 3 that are optically coupled to the optical transmission line, and a light pick-up means for picking up part of communication signal light being on-propagation along the optical transmission line, and wherein the connector main body 16 has, in a position that faces the light pick-up means, an optical output port 26 for outputting part of the communication signal light picked up by the light pick-up means to a light detector 2.

Method and computer system for logically evaluating a Boolean expression used in a query statement to optimize the query. The Boolean expression refers to an attribute and includes a plurality of conditions. The Boolean expression is received (410) and decomposed (420) into the plurality of conditions. For each condition at least one condition value referring to the attribute is extracted (421) from the condition. The at least one condition value is then inserted (422) into a condition value list in sorted order. A relationship vector of the at least one condition value is initialized (423). Then the relationship vectors of the at least one condition value and of each further condition value that is in the condition list and that is in the value range of the condition are adjusted (424). After having processed all conditions the Boolean expression may be reducing (430) according to each relationship vector.

The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for presenting restaurant items for ordering through a customer ordering kiosk, comprising the steps of displaying a list of restaurant item selectors within an ordering interface screen, receiving a selection signal indicating that one of the restaurant items has been selected. displaying one or more of the selected restaurant items within an order cart interface screen, wherein each of the selected restaurant items includes a selector box representing dietary options for the selected restaurant items. A dietary option is a predetermined set of ingredients associated and in accordance with a known set of preferences or nutritional restrictions.

The invention discloses a gasket measuring and matching check tool. The check tool comprises an air cylinder and a check tool base plate, wherein the check tool base plate is fixed at the upper end of the air cylinder and is arranged horizontally; a push rod of the air cylinder vertically passes through the check tool base plate and is fixed with a check tool moveable plate which is arranged horizontally; two vertical upward check tool guide posts are arranged on the two sides of the check tool base plate; check tool top plates which are arranged horizontally are arranged at the upper ends of the check tool guide posts; the check tool top plates are provided with through holes; inverted U-shaped check tool measuring blocks are fixed on the lower side faces; two check tool positioning sleeves which pass through the inverted U-shaped check tool measuring blocks and the through holes on the check tool top plates at the same time are fixed on the upper side of the inverted U-shaped check tool measuring blocks; and height measurement and display mechanisms are fixed in the check tool positioning sleeves. The gasket measuring and matching check tool of the invention has the characteristics of simple structure and easy operation, realizes rapid measurement and matching of gaskets, eliminates a free gap between assemblies in a spring loaded way, and fulfills the aim of selecting a proper gasket effectively and accurately.

The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for presenting restaurant items for ordering through a customer ordering kiosk, comprising the steps of displaying a first restaurant item category selector within a first ordering interface screen, wherein the first restaurant item category comprises a first background indicia pattern, displaying a second restaurant item category selector within the first ordering interface screen, wherein the second restaurant item category selector comprises a second background indicia pattern that is visually different from the first indicia pattern and displaying a third restaurant item category selector within the first ordering interface screen, wherein the third restaurant item category selector comprises a third background indicia pattern. When a selection signal is received representing that one of the item category selectors has been selected, the kiosk displays a first restaurant item selector comprising a restaurant item background pattern that matches the corresponding category selector.

A mobile station includes processing circuitry and a memory storing a preferred roaming list and system priority data. The processing circuitry is adapted to detect a communications event for a currently selected wireless communications system and update an entry in the system priority data to reflect the occurrence of the detected communications event. The use of stored statistical information improves the efficiency of the system selection and acquisition process. In operation, a group of wireless communications systems is selected from the preferred roaming list in accordance with a predetermined system acquisition procedure. The group is reprioritized using the priority data and the mobile station attempts to select the wireless communications system having the highest priority in the reprioritized group. The reprioritization may include sorting the group using the priority data and removing systems from the group that do not meet certain priority criteria.