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The inkjet recording head assembly comprises: a recording head which has nozzles discharging ink; a main tank which is a supply source of the ink; and an auxiliary tank which communicates with the main tank, the auxiliary tank being in direct connection to the recording head without interposing tubes, a circulation channel being formed by the auxiliary tank and an ink flow channel in the recording head, the auxiliary tank having an exhaust channel connected to a pressure reduction device which reduces inner pressure of the auxiliary tank.

The present invention relates to a dual functional catalyst having both the catalytic reaction function and fractionation function and a catalytic distillation equipment for packing the catalyst therein. Said catalyst has a special shape and can be packed at random into the reaction section of said equipment. So, there exist adequate free spaces inside pellet and between pellets, enabling the vapor and liquid streams to pass through the catalyst beds directly and countercurrently, and contact with the dual functional catalyst directly. The reaction between the reactants and fractionation of products can be carried out simultaneously. Thus a high reaction efficiency is achieved. No special inner part is needed in the reaction section to pack the catalysts, so the structure of the equipment is simple and easy to operate, and the investment and cost of operation are low.

As a measurement table (10), an object provided with a flat surface (11) having an area on which all wheels of a vehicle can be mounted at the same time and a front wheel mounting table (12) which is disposed in front of the flat surface (11) and is lifted by a step of a predetermined height is used, a wheel position detector (8) which is capable of detecting a front wheel position and a rear wheel position of a vehicle to be measured is provided, a computation processing device (3) is provided with anterior-posterior displacement calculation means, an inter-axle distance calculation means (21), a vehicle inclination calculation means (22), a front wheel axle load calculation means (23A), a rear wheel axle load calculation means (23B), an anterior-posterior gravity center position calculation means (24), a storage means (32), an anterior-posterior gravity center displacement calculation means (25), and a vehicle gravity center height position calculation means (26), and from a gravity center displacement which is calculated from anterior-posterior gravity center position information calculated on the flat surface (11) and anterior-posterior gravity center position information in the state in which front wheels are mounted on the front wheel mounting table (12) and a vehicle inclination which is calculated by the vehicle inclination calculation means (22), the position of the height of the center of gravity of the vehicle to be measured is calculated.

At the time of the radiation irradiation, in the photo diode of all detecting elements G11-G1n, the photoelectric conversion operation is conducted. In this case, when TFT of the detecting elements used for conducting the radiation measurement is made ON, it is connected to each output circuit of the output circuit group 13, and by the detecting element used for conducting the radiation measurement, the photoelectric conversion operation is conducted and obtained electric signal is held in the output circuit. This electric signal held in the output circuit is outputted for each predetermined interval, and it is confirmed whether the radiation amount is more than a predetermined index value.

An exhalation collected in a breath bag capable of expanding and contracting is sucked into a gas inlet vessel 21 with a given volume (Va), and then the gas inlet vessel 21 is communicated by means of valve V2 with a cell 11 that is maintained at an atmospheric pressure by being pre-filled with a sample gas or reference gas. After the communication, the gas pressure is measured by a pressure sensor 16 attached to the cell 11. Whether the exhalation collected in the breath bag is below a given amount or not can be accurately judged.

An intermittently rotating table-type apparatus for manufacturing a bag equipped with spout(s). The apparatus attaches spout(s) to at least one of the mouths of a bag that are at both shoulders of the bag. The mouth(s) of the bag is expanded by bag mouth suction cups, and the main body of the bag is expanded by main body suction cups; and then the spout(s) is inserted in the bag mouth(s), and the inserted spout(s) is held by spout gripping members. When the bag is moved by the rotation of the table, a suction cup arm that supplies suction air to the suction cup and the suction cup are moved to follow the movement of the bag; and after the sealing is made to the bag and spout(s), the arm and the suction cup return to their original positions.

An optical image measuring apparatus capable of effectively obtaining a direct current component of a heterodyne signal which is composed of background light of interference light is provided. The optical image measuring apparatus includes: an optical interference system in which a light beam from a light source is divided into signal light and reference light by a beam splitter, a frequency of the reference light is shifted by a frequency shifter, and the signal light propagating through an object to be measured and the reference light reflected on a mirror are superimposed on each other by the beam splitter to produce interference light; beam splitters for dividing the interference light into interference light beams; shutters serving as an intensity modulating unit for modulating intensities of the respective interference light beams at predetermined intervals; CCDs for receiving the respective interference light beams whose intensities are modulated and outputting electrical signals; and a signal processing portion serving as a calculating unit for calculating an intensity of the direct current component corresponding to the background light of the interference light based on the outputted electrical signals.

An apparatus and method are provided for recognizing a working height of a device transfer system in a semiconductor device test handler which allows the working height of the device transfer system to be quickly measured and/or precisely reset. The device transfer system moves horizontally and vertically on a handler body of the semiconductor device test handler, and moves horizontally and vertically, and includes a plurality of pickers which pick up the semiconductor devices. An elevating block installed at one side of the device transfer system moves upward and downward, and a touch probe installed vertical relative to the elevating block moves upward and downward based on contact with a target object. A detector detects ascendance of the touch probe upon contact with the target object, and a working position is determined based on an initial position, a measured position, and a series of offset values.

A heat treatment apparatus includes a plurality of induction heating devices which heat a steel product, a correctional device which corrects the steel product, a computing device which computes supply predetermined electric power which is supplied to the induction heating device, on the basis of a size of the steel product, a conveying speed of the steel product, a heating target temperature of the steel product, and a predetermined temperature of the steel product at the previous stage of the induction heating devices, and a power supply unit which supplies the supply predetermined electric power computed by the computing device to the induction heating devices, and the computing device which computes electric power for uniform heating processing on the steel product or electric power for surface layer heating processing on the steel product.

A movable member 13, whose physical change occurs corresponding to a respiration flow rate, is disposed in the pipe 11. The pipe 11 and holder section are structured to be capable of being detachable. When staring respiration with the mouth touching pipe 11, the movable member 13 bends corresponding to respiration flow rate. Image data of the movable member 13 is obtained through the pipe 11 by a CCD area sensor disposed outside the pipe 11 and the bending amount is detected. The respiration rate is calculated based on the flow rate data corresponding to the bending amount of the movable member 13 in use.

The present invention relates to a wet-type air purifying apparatus, more specifically, a wet-type air purifying apparatus that is installed in a passage(for example, ventilating openings or ventilating windows) through which the air passes and purifies polluting matter in the air by adsorbing the polluting matter contained in the air together with the water to a water filter, which is formed in a water frame to purify the polluting matter in the air by use of adsorbing ability of water and to which the water is injected, while the air passes through the water filter.

A pattern forming apparatus as exposure apparatus includes first and second movable stages for respectively supporting first and second boards placed thereon, and for transporting each board back and forth on a transport path. A pattern forming unit with DMD and laser forms a pattern on the board according to pattern data while the board moves into and out of a pattern forming region. A controller controls the pattern forming unit, and in a first period, moves a first board in a first direction on the transport path among plural boards, to form the pattern, and in a second period, moves a second board in the first direction on the transport path among the plural boards, to form the pattern. The pattern forming unit is disposed in a middle of the transport path, and is passed by the movable stages, for pattern forming selectively on the first and second boards.

The present invention provides an optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus having a function of communicating with a noncontact IC. The apparatus includes a chassis, an external antenna arranged for communication with a noncontact IC outside the chassis, an internal antenna arranged for communication with a noncontact IC included in an optical disc loaded in the chassis, a control section performing a search operation of searching for the noncontact IC outside the chassis and the noncontact IC in the optical disc, and a switching section changing conduction state between the external antenna and the control section and that between the internal antenna and the control section under the control of the control section.

There is provided a bellows type dispensing tip, a bellows type dispensing apparatus, and a method of bellows type dispensing processing that performs highly precise dispensing processing despite having a simple structure. The apparatus comprises; two or more bellows type dispensing tips having; an accommodating section that is capable of accommodating a liquid or gas in the interior thereof surrounded by a wall face, and that has a deformable deforming wall face in a portion of the wall face, and an opening section communicated with the accommodating section, through which the liquid to be suctioned/discharged can flow in and flow out due to expansion and contraction of the interior caused by deformation of the deforming wall face; and a dispensing head that supports one or two or more of the bellows type dispensing tips, and that performs suction/discharge of the liquid into or from the bellows type dispensing tip, by deforming the deforming wall face of the bellows type dispensing tip.

In a recording/reproducing system that performs PRML decoding, a suitable evaluation value for setting a recording condition can be obtained with a simple structure. It is assumed that a value corresponding to a difference between a difference metric between a maximum likelihood path for an equalized signal that is fed to maximum likelihood decoding processing and a path in a bit-advanced shift direction and a difference metric between the maximum likelihood path for the equalized signal and a path in a bit-delayed shift direction is a signal quality evaluation value dSAM. Further, the signal quality evaluation value dSAM is calculated using an equalization error value ek which is an error between an equalized signal value fed to the maximum likelihood decoding processing and an ideal equalized signal value determined from a decoded signal obtained as a result of the maximum likelihood decoding processing.

An image reading apparatus including: a reading device which reads an image of a document to obtain image data; a display device which displays a display image based on the image data; an operable portion; an outputting portion which outputs the image data; an image-data storing portion which successively storesa prescribed amount of the image data; a reference-range-information storing portion which stores reference-range information that is required to determine a reference range of the image data; a reference-range managing portion which determines the reference range and which successively updates the information such that the reference range is successively updated at a prescribed timing by a prescribed size; a display controlling portion which controls the display device to display the display image such that the reference range is visually recognizable; a timing controlling portion which controls updating intervals at which the reference range is updated, such that an amount of the image data corresponding to an amount of change of the reference range in a certain time period is smaller than an amount of the image data to be stored in the certain time period; a command detecting portion which detects a specific command, and an output-range determining portion which determines an output range of the image data on the basis of the reference range decided based on the information that is the most recently updated, when the specific command is detected.

A catalyst has a long life span and efficiently separates hydrogen from water. A first metal element (Ni, Pd, Pt) for cutting the combination of hydrogen and oxygen and a second metal element (Cr, Mo, W, Fe) for helping the function of the first metal element are melted in alkaline metal hydroxide or alkaline earth metal hydroxide to make a mixture heated at a temperature above the melting point of the hydroxide to eject fine particles from the liquid surface, bringing steam into contact with the fine particles. Instead of this, a mixture of alkaline metal hydroxide and metal oxide is heated at a temperature above the melting point of the alkaline metal hydroxide to make metal compound in which at least two kinds of metal elements are melted, and fine particles are ejected from the surface of the metal compound to be brought into contact with steam.

The present invention discloses a method for monitoring energy efficiency performance of a device, which comprises: connecting the monitored device, obtaining input energy and output energy of the monitored device in a period of time, and calculating an energy efficiency index of the monitored device; and obtaining an energy efficiency deviation based on a standard energy efficiency index of the monitored device, and determining a state of the monitored device based on the energy efficiency deviation. The present invention further discloses a apparatus for monitoring energy efficiency performance of a device. Using the method and apparatus described above, the fine assessment for the device performance can be implemented in a simple way.

A chuck portion provided to keep a fixed positional relation with respect to a housing, holds a light source unit detachably. This chuck portion is displaced from an advanced position to a retracted position to displace the light source unit which is in a provisional position with respect to the housing, in a direction being away from the housing along a reference axis and the light source unit is retracted from the housing. In a state where the light source unit which is in this position is held by the chuck portion, the light source unit is slid and displaced in a direction crossing the reference axis with respect to the housing, angularly displaced about the reference axis and an axis crossing the reference axis, and then fixed to the housing.

An apparatus for transferring vehicles onto a conveyer comprises: a front wheel supporting means (6) on an elevator (5), which is provided with a pair of front and rear wheel supporting arms (29a, 29b) that freely open and close in a horizontal direction between a closed posture supporting front wheels (Wf) at a predetermined position in terms of the convey direction and an opened posture releasing the front wheels (Wf) to the convey direction; a rear wheel supporting means (7) on the elevator (5), which is provided with a wheel supporting plate (38) that supports rear wheels (Wr) without determining the position thereof in terms of the convey direction and can switch its posture between a horizontal posture and a front-down tilted posture in terms of the convey direction; and a posture switching means (40) that changes the wheel supporting plate (38) of the rear wheel supporting means (7) to the tilted posture, at least when the elevator (5), supporting a vehicle (C) with the wheel supporting arms (29a, 29b) of the front wheel supporting means (6) in the closed posture and the wheel supporting plate (38) of the rear wheel supporting means (7) in the horizontal posture, is at the lowermost position for transferring the vehicle (C) onto a conveyor (1).

A sheet conveyance device to convey a sheet which is stored within a sheet storing section, including: a plurality of sheet conveyance rollers, mounted on a sheet storing section, to be parallel to each other with respect to rotating centers, wherein the plurality of the sheet conveyance rollers come into contact with the sheet to convey the sheet toward an exterior of the sheet conveyance device; and a coupling section to couple the plurality of the sheet conveyance rollers and to rotate the plurality of the sheet conveyance rollers, wherein at least one of the plurality of the sheet conveyance rollers represents an irregularly shaped roller, wherein the irregularly shaped roller is coupled to another sheet conveyance roller by the coupling section, and wherein a distance between a rotation center and a peripheral surface of the irregularly shaped roller is inconstant, in a rotational direction of the irregularly shaped roller.

The invention achieves a good engine speed control without increasing a cost and a lowering a reliability of an apparatus in a general purpose engine. In a rotating speed control apparatus of an engine in which an electronic control unit (10) controls an engine speed by operating so as to open and close a throttle valve (40) by an electronic governor apparatus (4) on the basis of an engine speed detected by a crank angle sensor (7) corresponding to an engine speed detecting means and regulating an intake air amount, the opening and closing operation of the throttle valve (40) in the electronic governor apparatus (4) is carried out by a rotating force of a motor rotationally driven only in one direction and an elastic repulsive force of a return spring energizing in a reverse direction.

A disc transfer apparatus which relies on a spring force for inserting a disc and on a motor for removing the disc, is provided to prevent the motor from acting as a load when the disc is inserted. A holding mechanism is provided in the disc transfer apparatus for holding a control gear included in a power transmission path (from a two ways motor for moving a pickup to a push-back member), with respect to an upstream gear and a downstream gear without meshing therewith. The control gear is released from the holding mechanism by ejecting means.

The present invention relates to a headrest moving device, more particularly, relates to a headrest moving device comprising: a moving member rotatably connected to a second member; and a guide member connected to the first member and guided by the first member and having a locking groove formed therein for guiding the moving member so that the number of parts of the device is significantly reduced, the weight of the apparatus can be reduced, the manufacturing cost of the apparatus can be reduced, the structure of the apparatus can be simplified since the button can be omitted, and the convenience of usage is enhanced since if a user presses one time, the headrest is positioned in a first position and if presses one more time in the same way the headrest is positioned in a second position.

Provided is an apparatus for measuring a level of molten metal which has a simple structure and is highly robust against a change in level at a local portion of the surface of molten metal. The apparatus for measuring a level of molten metal according to a first aspect of the present invention is an apparatus which measures a level of molten metal in a mold. The apparatus includes an omnidirectional transmitting antenna; an omnidirectional receiving antenna; and a signal processor. The apparatus measures the level of molten metal in the mold using electromagnetic wave in ultra-high frequency range emitted into the mold by the omnidirectional transmitting antenna.

The present invention relates to a headrest controlling apparatus, and more particularly, to a headrest controlling apparatus which includes a headrest cover, a bracket installed on a stay rod, and a locking member installed in the bracket to fix a position of a headrest, wherein the headrest cover includes a stay rod coupling part to which the stay rod is rotatably coupled, and thus the headrest controlling apparatus can minimize a distance from the stay rod to a front lower edge of the apparatus, can be easily assembled due to the modularized bracket and locking member, and can be easily operated due to increased precision of the locking member.