Abstract: A marine propulsion device includes a first gear, a second gear, a third gear, a circulator, a case, and an attachment body. The second gear is meshed with the first gear. The third gear is meshed with the first gear, and the third gear is coaxial with the second gear and opposed to the second gear. The circulator is between the second gear and the third gear. The case includes an internal space in which the first gear, the second gear, the third gear, and the circulator are located. The case includes an attachment hole to which the circulator is attached. The attachment body is inserted into the attachment hole so as to attach the circulator to the case.

Abstract: A small light-emitting device is provided. A light-emitting device which is less likely to produce a shadow is provided. A structure including a switching circuit for supplying a pulsed constant current and a light-emitting panel supplied with the pulsed constant current has been conceived.

Abstract: A distance-measuring system includes: a first ranging sensor; a second ranging sensor that covers a detection range more limited than a detection range covered by the first ranging sensor and has resolution higher than resolution of the first ranging sensor; and an image processing device. The image processing device includes: a machine detector that detects a position of a mobile machine, based on a first sensed result obtained by the first ranging sensor; a sensor controller that controls a detection position to be detected by the second ranging sensor to detect the position of the mobile machine which has been detected; and a safety determiner that controls the mobile machine, based on a second sensed result obtained by the second ranging sensor.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes: a nozzle plate having multiple nozzles from each of which a liquid is to be discharged; a housing supporting a peripheral edge of the nozzle plate; a liquid channel between the nozzle plate and the housing; and a coupling portion coupling an inner region of the peripheral edge of the nozzle plate and the housing.

Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a first sheet conveyance passage, a second sheet conveyance passage, a pair of sheet conveying rollers, and a movable member. The second sheet conveyance passage is different from the first sheet conveyance passage. The pair of sheet conveying rollers includes two rollers configured to hold a sheet passing the first sheet conveyance passage. The movable member is configured to convey the sheet passing the second sheet conveyance passage. The two rollers are configured to be separated from each other along with movement of the movable member.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a first member in which a plurality of channels is arrayed in a longitudinal direction of the first member, a second member bonded to the first member with adhesive, and three or more holes formed in a bonding region between the first member and the second member. An inner volume of each of the three or more holes is different, an area of each of the three or more holes is different, the three or more holes includes a hole having a smallest inner volume among the three or more holes, and the hole is filled with the adhesive in the bonding region.

Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a first sheet conveyance passage, a second sheet conveyance passage, a pair of sheet conveying rollers, and a movable member. The second sheet conveyance passage is different from the first sheet conveyance passage. The pair of sheet conveying rollers includes two rollers configured to hold a sheet passing the first sheet conveyance passage. The movable member is configured to convey the sheet passing the second sheet conveyance passage. The two rollers are configured to be separated from each other along with movement of the movable member.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a first member in which a plurality of channels is arrayed in a longitudinal direction of the first member, a second member bonded to the first member with adhesive, and three or more holes formed in a bonding region between the first member and the second member. An inner volume of each of the three or more holes is different, an area of each of the three or more holes is different, the three or more holes includes a hole having a smallest inner volume among the three or more holes, and the hole is filled with the adhesive in the bonding region.

Abstract: A handwritten music sign recognition device (10) has: a touch information obtaining part (21) which obtains, as position information, a position of an input means on a screen every time the input means moves, from when the input means touches the screen until when the input means is moved away therefrom; a vector information creation part (22) which creates attributes of a vector indicating a trace of movement of the input means as vector information based on the position information; and a stroke characteristic amount derivation part (23) which derives a characteristic amount of a stroke based on the vector information included in the stroke information.

Abstract: A handwritten music sign recognition device (10) has: a touch information obtaining part (21) which obtains, as position information, a position of an input means on a screen every time the input means moves, from when the input means touches the screen until when the input means is moved away therefrom; a vector information creation part (22) which creates attributes of a vector indicating a trace of movement of the input means as vector information based on the position information; and a stroke characteristic amount derivation part (23) which derives a characteristic amount of a stroke based on the vector information included in the stroke information.

Abstract: A speaker diaphragm contains a material obtained by adding a cycloolefin polymer resin to a carbon fiber-reinforced liquid crystal polymer. The speaker diaphragm having high sound velocity, a speaker, and a production method of the speaker diaphragm can thereby be obtained.

Abstract: A musical score playing device including a prescribed measure time calculating module; a measure playing time calculating module; a comparing module for comparing the calculated prescribed measure time and the measure playing time; and a note value correcting module for inferring that a tuplet is present within the measure if the prescribed measure time and the measure playing time are not matched and for correcting the sound emission timings, the note value correcting module including a measure note sequence recording module for storing a note sequence, a grouping module for grouping the notes within the measure according to each beat, and a tupleting process module for changing the note values of the grouped notes based on a relationship of the playing time of the grouped notes and the reference time of a single beat.

Abstract: A sheet feeder mountable to a body of an apparatus includes a bottom plate on which the sheets are placed and a bottom plate lift unit including a bottom plate pusher disposed beneath the bottom plate, a rack member to rotate the bottom plate pusher vertically by moving horizontally, a pinion gear to move the rack member horizontally, a biasing member to pull the bottom plate pusher toward the rack member, attached therebetween, and a position detector to detect positions of the rack member and the pinion gear. The pinion gear is coupled using projection-and-recess engagement to a rotation transmission device provided to the body, and a quantity of tooth Z1 of the pinion gear by which the rack member is moved by the rotation transmission device, a total tooth number Z2 of the pinion gear, and a coupling division number S of the rotation transmission device satisfy Z1=Z2·(1/S)·N.

Abstract: Preparation of playing information having correct note values is made possible even if tuplet symbols are not written in a musical score. A prescribed measure time calculating means a measure playing time calculating means a comparing means comparing the calculated prescribed measure time and the measure playing time, and a note value correcting means inferring that a tuplet is present within the measure if the prescribed measure time and the measure playing time are not matched and correcting the sound emission timings and the note value correcting means includes a measure note sequence recording means storing a note sequence, a grouping means grouping the notes within the measure according to each beat, and a tupleting process means performing a tupleting process of changing the note values of the grouped notes based on a relationship of the playing time of the grouped notes and the reference time of a single beat.

Abstract: A printed matter, wherein a line latent image and a digital watermark are printed in a predetermined region in an overlapping manner, the line latent image becoming visible when a line filter provided with a line pattern formed on a transparent film is superimposed thereon.

Abstract: A sheet feeder mountable to a body of an apparatus includes a bottom plate on which the sheets are placed and a bottom plate lift unit including a bottom plate pusher disposed beneath the bottom plate, a rack member to rotate the bottom plate pusher vertically by moving horizontally, a pinion gear to move the rack member horizontally, a biasing member to pull the bottom plate pusher toward the rack member, attached therebetween, and a position detector to detect positions of the rack member and the pinion gear. The pinion gear is coupled using projection-and-recess engagement to a rotation transmission device provided to the body, and a quantity of tooth Z1 of the pinion gear by which the rack member is moved by the rotation transmission device, a total tooth number Z2 of the pinion gear, and a coupling division number S of the rotation transmission device satisfy Z1=Z2·(1/S)·N.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a recording head, a transport belt, a pressure roller, an inlet detection sensor, a leading edge detection sensor, and a control unit. The control unit controls the leading edge of the sheet to stop at the nip portion of the pressure roller and the transport belt based on the detection by the inlet detection sensor. When the leading edge of a sheet is not detected by the leading edge sensor, the leading edge position of the sheet is set based on a stop position at a nip portion of the pressure roller and the transport belt.

Abstract: In an audio output system including a TV, an AV amplifier, a DVD player, and the like, a simple control program decides an audio output mode setting, i.e., whether to output audio from a built-in speaker of the TV or output audio from an external speaker connected to the AV amplifier by linking operations of the respective devices. A control unit of a DVD player transmits a request signal concerning the audio output mode to a control unit of a TV. According to a request from the DVD player, the control unit of the TV instructs a control unit of an AV amplifier to be set to a mode for outputting audio from an external speaker connected to the AV amplifier or a mode for not outputting audio and sets a built-in speaker of the TV to a state opposite to the state of the external speaker.

Abstract: A V-type engine is disposed in an engine room of a vehicle so that each cylinder bank of the V-type engine extends substantially in a vehicle length direction. Exhaust manifolds are attached to both side of the V-type engine in a vehicle width direction, respectively. Catalytic converters are attached to both gathering portions of the exhaust manifolds, respectively, in a manner that an axial line of each of the catalytic converters extends substantially in a vehicle height direction. An auxiliary component is disposed above one of the catalytic converters in the engine room. An oil pan is attached to a lower portion of the V-type engine. The one of the catalytic converters is located lateral to the oil pan. A center line of lower portion of the oil pan is shifted with respect to a center line of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction so that the lower portion of the oil pan is away from the one of the catalytic converters.

Abstract: In an audiovisual system in which a TV, an AV amplifier, a DVD player and the like are combined, another device constituting the system is automatically set to an optimal operation state according to the content recorded on an optical disc. A reproduction content judging unit 406 of a DVD player 400 judges the type (a video signal and an audio signal) and the format of signals included in content that has been read from the optical disc 401. According to the results of judging by the reproduction content judging unit 406, a control unit 403 of the DVD player 400 sends an instruction signal related to the power supply state and an instruction signal related to output of at least one of video and audio to a control unit 105 of a TV 100 and a control unit 203 of an AV amplifier 200.