Abstract: In a force cutting type paper cutter, a movable blade includes a pair of right and left edges having a V shape. These right and left edges are intersected and brought into pressure contact with a linear cutting edge of a fixed blade. The movable blade also includes a pair of right and left elastic pieces formed by a lateral slit and a division slit provided in the movable blade. These elastic pieces are held in an inclined state to the side of the fixed blade and such that the edges overlap with each other. During a cutting stroke, the elastic pieces are held a state in which the edges of the movable blade always make point contact with the edge of the fixed blade and uneven abutment is prevented.

Abstract: A diaphragm subassembly comprises a voice coil, a diaphragm, a frame, and a pair of terminal members. A magnetic circuit unit comprises a yoke, a magnet, and a base. The diaphragm subassembly and the magnetic circuit unit are accommodated in a bottomed cylindrical cover. In the manufacturing process, the cover is placed with the open end directed upward. The diaphragm subassembly, the yoke, the magnet, and the base are dropped into the cover in this order. The manufacturing process of a dynamic electroacoustic transducer is thereby simplified.

Abstract: A printer includes: a carriage mounting a print head; a stepping motor for causing the carriage to reciprocate with respect to a recording medium; a print timing correction information storage unit for storing print timing correction information indicating a degree of correction of print timing; an additional step count acquisition unit for acquiring a step count of the stepping motor corresponding to the degree of correction of print timing indicated by the print timing correction information as an additional step count; and a carriage reciprocation control unit for controlling a step count of the stepping motor related to reciprocation of the carriage based on a step count of the stepping motor corresponding to a print timing count set to a going path and a returning path and the additional step count acquired by the additional step count acquisition unit.

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 condenser microphone includes: a base frame including a containing space; a pair of substrates laminated to the base frame to close both end openings of the containing space; a condenser portion that is contained inside of the containing space; conductive layers formed on bonding surfaces of the base frame and the substrates opposed to each other; and exposed surfaces where the surfaces of a base frame main body and a substrate main body are exposed, the exposed surfaces being formed on outer peripheries of the conductive layers, wherein: the conductive layers of the base frame and the substrate are electrically connected; the exposed surfaces of the base frame main body and the substrate main body are adhered by an adhering agent; and an electric connection between the conductive layers is maintained by utilizing an adhering force of the adhering agent.

Abstract: A condenser microphone includes: a condenser portion including a vibration film and a plate disposed opposed to each other; an impedance conversion unit that converts the variations of the electrostatic capacity of the condenser portion to electric impedances; and a box member that stores the condenser portion and the impedance conversion unit therein, and includes a heat insulating portion.

Abstract: A microphone case includes: a plastic basic frame including a space for housing an electro-acoustic transducing unit; a plastic substrate for closing an opening of the space, the plastic substrate being bonded to the basic frame; conductive layers provided on the bonding surfaces of the basic frame and the substrate respectively, the conductive layers being electrically connected to each other; and exposed portions where the surfaces of the basic frame and the substrate are exposed, wherein the basic frame and the substrate are bonded to each other in the exposed portions.

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.

Abstract: A method for producing an electret capacitor microphone high in sensitivity and stable in acoustic characteristic. A PET film stretched with predetermined tension is bonded to a diaphragm support ring to perform stretch and fixation of a diaphragm to produce a diaphragm sub-assembly. The diaphragm sub-assembly is heated at a predetermined temperature (e.g. 200° C.) higher than a second order transition point of PET. Then, the diaphragm sub-assembly is packed in a housing. Because the diaphragm sub-assembly is heated at the predetermined temperature before packed in the housing, the stiffness of the diaphragm is reduced. Because the stiffness of the diaphragm 26 is reduced in such a manner, the tension at the time of stretch and fixation of the diaphragm can be set to a large value to prevent the diaphragm from being crinkled.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a check valve and a diaphragm pump employing the same which has a good response, and in which a valve chamber can be made small so as to be hardly influenced by bubbles. [Means for Solution] A check valve includes a valve chamber 11 which is defined by a top wall 8 having an introducing port 8a of a fluid, a bottom wall 9 having an exhaust port 9a of the fluid, and a side wall, and a valve body 12a which is supported in the valve chamber 11 in a cantilever manner having its base end fixed to the side wall and its distal end formed as a free end, the valve body being arranged above the introducing port 8a. The bottom wall 9 is formed with a valve seat 9b having an inclined face 9b2 which is inclined so as to be gradually separated from the top wall 8 along the valve body 12a from the base end toward the distal end thereof.

Abstract: In a printer, an MPU makes a flash ROM store a temperature read by a temperature sensor at the time of setting of a correction value and a misalignment correction number indicating a misalignment correction value. At the time of reciprocating print motion of a printer, the printer makes the temperature sensor measure an actual ambient temperature before backward printing and obtains a difference between the present temperature and the temperature at the time of setting of the correction value. A print start delay time which indicates timing between a point of time of driving a carriage motor and a point of time of starting the backward printing is corrected in accordance with the temperature difference. The printer starts the backward printing at the timing delayed for the corrected print start delay time.

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 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.