Abstract: A print system includes a first printer and a print data output device that is communicably connected to the first printer. The print data output device is adapted to output to the first printer print data generated based on internal print data generated by any of a plurality of programs. The print data output device includes a second printer-retained information storage unit. The second printer-retained information storage unit obtains and stores the second printer-retained information that is stored in the second printer. The print data output device includes an intermediate data generation section that generates raster image data based on the internal print data and the second printer-retained information. The print data output device includes a print data generation unit that generates the print data used for causing the first printer to form an image based on the raster image data on an image recording medium.

Abstract: A machine tool includes: a main spindle adapted to be rotatable with a workpiece chucked thereby; a tool spindle capable of moving in directions of three axes perpendicular to each other and capable of pivoting about one of the axes, the axis being perpendicular to the main spindle; an automatic tool changer adapted to detachably attach a first tool and a chucking unit to the tool spindle, the first tool being used for machining the workpiece chucked by the main spindle, the chucking unit being used for chucking the workpiece; and a tool post having a second tool mounted thereon, the second tool being used for machining the workpiece chucked by the chucking unit attached to the tool spindle.

Abstract: A printer and a cutter apparatus configured to provide a sure full cut without producing an undesirable flake of paper. The cutter apparatus comprises a fixed blade, a first movable blade disposed on one side in a width direction of the paper and configured to move back and forth with respect to the fixed blade, a second movable blade disposed on the other side in the width direction of the paper with a gap provided with respect to the first movable blade and configured to move back and forth with respect to the fixed blade, and an urging member configured to urge each of the first movable blade and the second movable blade in a direction reducing the gap.

Abstract: A control apparatus of a machine tool is adapted to detect whether or not an NC program is stopped at an end of a block and whether or not a rotation of a handwheel for a manual pulse generator is stopped and restarted when both a manual pulse mode and a single block mode are selected. The NC program is accordingly automatically restarted from the next block in conjunction with the restart of the handwheel rotation. The operator thus can restart an operation of an NC unit only by rotating the handwheel when the operation is automatically stopped at the end of a block of the NC program.

Abstract: A method is for setting configuration data to a print data supplying device. The print data supplying device is operable to: store data associated with at least one of a plurality of items of group information in a first storage area; generate print data based on: (1) internal print data generated by an internal print data generation program; and (2) configuration data associated with one of the items of group information corresponding to a printer to which the print data is supplied; and supply the print data to the printer. The method includes: determining whether or not a target printer is connected; generating a new item of group information corresponding to the target printer when the target printer is connected; and storing reference configuration data that is stored in a second storage area to the first storage area, as the configuration data, in association with the new item of the group information.

Abstract: Provided is a printer in which a cut-off paper is pushed into a paper stacking portion without an additional power source while reducing the maximum load applied to driving means for driving a movable blade. A printer includes a movable blade for cutting a paper disposed between a fixed blade and a movable blade as it moves in a forward direction and separating a printed part as a cut-off paper; driving means for moving the movable blade in a reciprocating manner; a pushing member which is driven to push a cut-off paper in a thickness direction of the cut-off paper; a paper stacking portion for stacking the cut-off paper pushed by the pushing member; and a driving force transferring mechanism for transferring a driving force of the driving means to the pushing member to drive the pushing member.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a machine tool for machining a workpiece includes: a main spindle that holds the workpiece to rotate the workpiece around a axis; a tool that is configured to machine the workpiece by working together with the main spindle; a headstock that rotatably supports the main spindle and includes a leading-edge portion and a base-end portion; and a bed that supports the headstock by a sliding bearing at the leading-edge portion and rolling bearings at two points of the base-end portion so that the headstock is movable along an axial line of the main spindle, wherein the two points of the base-end portion are spaced apart from each other in a direction orthogonal to the axial line of the main spindle.

Abstract: A control apparatus of a machine tool is adapted to detect whether or not an NC program is stopped at an end of a block and whether or not a rotation of a handwheel for a manual pulse generator is stopped and restarted when both a manual pulse mode and a single block mode are selected. The NC program is accordingly automatically restarted from the next block in conjunction with the restart of the handwheel rotation. The operator thus can restart an operation of an NC unit only by rotating the handwheel when the operation is automatically stopped at the end of a block of the NC program.

Abstract: A movable BF guide is provided in a movable-blade receiving area into which a movable blade slides along a fixed blade while being pressed against the fixed blade in a process of cutting recording paper. The movable-blade receiving area is blocked by the BF guide when the cutting process is not performed, thus preventing the entry of the end portion of the downstream connected recording paper into the movable-blade receiving area.

Abstract: A print system includes: a printer; and a print data supplying device. The print data supplying device includes: a print data supplying unit that supplies the printer with a print data; an internal print data condition storage unit that stores a plurality of internal print data conditions in association with the respective print data generation processing operations, the internal print data conditions pertaining to the internal print data; a determination unit that determines whether or not the internal print data satisfies any one of the internal print data conditions; and a print data generation unit that generates the print data by performing one of a plurality of print data generation processing operations, in accordance with internal print data that is output as a result of a data processing operation, and in accordance with the result of the determination made by the determination unit.

Abstract: A piezoelectric exciter includes: a beam including a substrate and a piezoelectric element affixed to the substrate; a supporting portion that supports the beam; a terminal fixed to the supporting portion, the terminal feeding electricity to the piezoelectric element; and a conductive member that electrically connects the terminal to an electrode of the piezoelectric element, wherein a conductive-member-containing recess is formed in the supporting portion and the conductive member is contained in the conductive-member-containing recess in an embedded state and wherein the supporting portion is made of a resin that is subjected to insert molding together with the substrate and the beam is made by affixing the piezoelectric element to the substrate after the insert molding.

Abstract: A check valve includes: a base member provided with an inlet channel along which fluid flows in one direction; a valve unit disposed on a valve mounting surface and including a film valve body and a frame body; and a valve seating surface defined on the valve mounting surface at the periphery of the opening of the inlet channel, wherein one or more communicating grooves are formed on the valve mounting surface across the frame body so as to extend from the valve seating surface to the outside of the frame body, wherein the inlet channel is blocked by the film valve body when the film valve body is in contact with the valve seating surface, and wherein the inlet channel and the outside of the frame body are communicated via the communicating grooves when the film valve body is separated from the valve seating surface.

Abstract: A label peeling method for label sheet includes: conveying a label sheet including a base sheet and a label affixed to the base sheet along a conveying path that is bent at a bent portion; and performing a printing operation on the label from a beginning portion of printing while conveying the label sheet, wherein the conveying of the label sheet and the printing operation are stopped once in a state where the label sheet is conveyed until a conveying-direction leading end portion of the label reaches a downstream side of the bent portion of the conveying path, after a stopping state is held for a predetermined time, the conveying of the label sheet and the printing operation are resumed so that the label is peeled from the base sheet at the bent portion of the conveying path.

Abstract: In the magnetic ink character reading apparatus, a first determination section reads signal data sequentially from a signal data string corresponding to the output signals of a magnetic head and determines whether the signal data corresponds to a predetermined signal. A second determination section determines whether the determination results by the first determination section is obtained successively for at least a predetermined number of signal data. A determination counter section counts the number of times (count) the successive acquisition of the determination results each telling the disagreement of the signal data with the predetermined signal over at least the predetermined number of signal data has been confirmed by the second determination section. A character recognition processing execution limit section limits the execution of the character recognition processing according to the count result provided by the determination counter section.

Abstract: A magnetic ink character reading apparatus includes a similarity acquisition unit, a character recognition unit and a character recognition limiting unit. The similarity acquisition unit acquires a similarity between one-character-corresponding data extracted from detection result data and reference data corresponding to each of the magnetic ink characters. The character recognition unit recognizes the magnetic ink character having the highest similarity as the magnetic ink character corresponding to the one-character-corresponding data. When the difference between the highest similarity and the second highest similarity among the similarities acquired is smaller than a predetermined reference difference, the character recognition limiting unit limits the determination that the magnetic ink character having the highest similarity is the magnetic ink character corresponding to the one-character.

Abstract: Provided is an insertion type earphone, in which a receiver unit (12) is constituted to have a receiver body (50) (or a BA type receiver) housed in a casing (20). The receiver body (50) includes a housing (56) having a small hole (66a) formed to provide communication between a back space (CR) and the external space. The casing (20) is constituted to include a cylindrical frame (32) having a sound guide tube (16) at its leading end portion and a gasket (36) inserted from a root end portion and fixed in the cylindrical frame (32). The receiver body (50) is so inserted into and fixed in the gasket (36) as to isolate a sound releasing hole (64a) and the small hole (66a). In the gasket (36), a communication hole (36e) is formed to provide communication between the sound releasing hole (64a) and a sound way (16a) of the sound guide tube (16).

Abstract: By integrating plural condenser microphone constituting bodies in an array state, a condenser microphone array is obtained. The condenser microphone array is formed by dicing a laminate of a circuit board forming member, a housing forming member, a spacer forming member, diaphragm sheet, diaphragm plate forming member and a cover forming member which form a part of the plural condenser microphone constituting bodies respectively. In an air chamber of each condenser microphone constituting body constituted in the laminate, a back plate and a contact spring are built.

Abstract: A circuit board forming member, a case forming member, a spacer forming member, a diaphragm sheet and a diaphragm plate forming member are laminated to form a portion, as excepting a back plate and a contact spring, of a condenser microphone, in plurality in a laminate. Moreover, the back plate and the contact spring are arranged in the air chamber, which is defined by the individual forming members, to form a plurality of condenser microphone constituents in the laminate. Next, the laminate is cut to separate the individual condenser microphone constituents thereby to manufacture the condenser microphones.

Abstract: A movement control apparatus for a moving member, includes: a drive unit that moves a moving member by rapid traverse on a first axis and a second axis intersecting the first axis, and overlaps the rapid traverse movements in the two axis directions to thereby allow the moving member to move around the periphery of a given area; a reference arc setting unit that sets a reference arc inscribed in the first and second axes; a timing setting unit that sets an overlap movement start timing for the rapid traverse of the moving member based on the reference arc when switching the moving member from the first axis to the second axis; and a control unit that controls the operation of the drive unit to move the moving member at a timing set by the timing setting unit.