Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: an apparatus body held by a user and provided with a printing unit configured to perform printing in a case of being moved in a first direction; a first guide unit configured to guide the movement in the first direction; a second guide unit rotatably held with respect to a structure fixed to the apparatus body and configured to guide movement in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; and a drive unit configured to be connected with the second guide unit and to rotate the second guide unit so that the structure moves to the second direction relative to the second guide unit by driving of the drive unit.

Abstract: A contaminant detector includes a detection object that is inclined relative to a horizontal direction in a drainage unit for accumulation of discharged water and on which a contaminant is to be deposited and a detection unit configured to emit energy toward the detection object to detect a contamination state of the detection object. The detection unit includes a transmission and reception module configured to emit and receive energy, a calculation module configured to calculate an amount of energy received from the detection object by the transmission and reception module, and a determination module configured to determine, based on the amount of energy calculated by the calculation module, the contamination state of the detection object.

Abstract: An output system includes a terminal device, an image-forming apparatus, and a server device. The terminal device includes an acquirer that acquires content from the server device, a generator that generates job data including a setting for outputting the content based on the acquired content, a transmitter that transmits the job data to the image-forming apparatus, and a reception slip outputter that outputs a reception slip including a reception number corresponding to the generated job data. The image-forming apparatus includes a receiver that receives the job data from the terminal device, and an outputter that outputs the content after executing a job based on the job data corresponding to the reception number when the reception number is input.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a body, a first battery set, a first accessory device, a second battery set, a second accessory device, a load device, and connecting wires. The first battery set is installed in the body and includes at least one first series unit including a predetermined number of battery cells connected in series. The first accessory device is installed in the body and connected to the first battery set. The second battery set is installed in the body and includes at least one second series unit including a predetermined number of battery cells connected in series. The second accessory device is installed in the body and connected to the second battery set. The load device is installed in the body and connected to the first battery set via the first accessory device and to the second battery set via the second accessory device.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a body, a first battery set, a first accessory device, a second battery set, a second accessory device, a load device, and connecting wires. The first battery set is installed in the body and includes at least one first series unit including a predetermined number of battery cells connected in series. The first accessory device is installed in the body and connected to the first battery set. The second battery set is installed in the body and includes at least one second series unit including a predetermined number of battery cells connected in series. The second accessory device is installed in the body and connected to the second battery set. The load device is installed in the body and connected to the first battery set via the first accessory device and to the second battery set via the second accessory device.

Abstract: A freely cuttable garment is provided. The freely cuttable garment is capable of being cut by a consumer into any design shape for use. The garment is formed of a fray-preventing knitted fabric woven with heat-welding elastic yarn. Sizes of opening parts of the neck, side, and bottom of the garment are smaller than those of a standard product; a total length and sleeve length of the garment are larger than those of the standard product; and a body width, cuff, waist, and lower bottom edge of the garment are equal to those of the standard product. The garment can be cut into any design shape and can be used with the opening parts left cut-off.

Abstract: A freely cuttable garment is provided. The freely cuttable garment is capable of being cut by a consumer into any design shape for use. The garment is formed of a fray-preventing knitted fabric woven with heat-welding elastic yarn. Sizes of opening parts of the neck, side, and bottom of the garment are smaller than those of a standard product; a total length and sleeve length of the garment are larger than those of the standard product; and a body width, cuff, waist, and lower bottom edge of the garment are equal to those of the standard product. The garment can be cut into any design shape and can be used with the opening parts left cut-off.

Abstract: An apparatus for managing information about an integrated circuit tag includes an acquiring unit and a storing unit. The acquiring unit acquires communication range information that is information about a range in which the integrated circuit tag communicates with an antenna of a reader/writer. The integrated circuit tag includes a transmitting device that transmits position identification information for identifying a position of the integrated circuit tag. The storing unit stores the communication range information in association with antenna identification information and integrated-circuit-tag identification information.

Abstract: Provided is a polybutylene terephthalate resin composition maintaining mechanical strength while providing excellent toughness, and which has excellent flowability during melt molding. In particular, to 100 parts by weight of the sum of 50 to 99 parts by weight of (A) a polybutylene terephthalate resin and 1 to 50 parts by weight of (B) a thermoplastic elastomer, there is added 0.01 to 5 parts by weight of (C) an acrylic-based oligomer.

Abstract: A garment is provided which a purchaser can freely cut after purchase into any design shape and then wear, and also which has a cut-off part requiring no high-level cutting and sewing processing techniques. The garment is formed of a fray-preventing knitted fabric woven with heat-welding elastic yarn. Sizes of opening parts of the neck, side, and bottom of the garment are smaller than those of a standard product; a total length and sleeve length of the garment are larger than those of the standard product; and a body width, cuff, waist, and lower bottom edge of the garment are equal to those of the standard product. The garment can be cut into any design shape and can be used with the opening parts left cut-off.

Abstract: An apparatus for managing information about an integrated circuit tag includes an acquiring unit and a storing unit. The acquiring unit acquires communication range information that is information about a range in which the integrated circuit tag communicates with an antenna of a reader/writer. The integrated circuit tag includes a transmitting device that transmits position identification information for identifying a position of the integrated circuit tag. The storing unit stores the communication range information in association with antenna identification information and integrated-circuit-tag identification information.

Abstract: A holding blade is formed to be separated from a neighboring holding blades. A body of an elastic plate is separated from bodies of neighboring elastic plates. Each elastic plate base is integrally formed and connected with each corresponding elastic plate body. The thickness of the elastic plate gradually decreases from the junction between the elastic plate base and the frame portion toward its top end. The surface of the elastic plate is shaped in a curved manner. The cross-section of the elastic plate body is substantially rectangular in shape with a larger width in the horizontal direction, and terrace portion extends outward from the elastic plate body.

Abstract: To economically produce a polyacetal copolymer excellent in properties including thermal stability by copolymerizing trioxane as the main monomer through simple steps, a polyacetal copolymer is produced by copolymerizing trioxane as the main monomer using a nonvolatile protonic acid catalyst as a polymerization catalyst until the conversion reaches at least 60% (based on all monomers), and then vaporizing unreacted monomers to separate, remove, and recover the same from the polymerization system to thereby reduce the residual monomer content of the polymerization system to 5% by weight or lower.

Abstract: A process for producing a polyacetal copolymer, which is extremely heat-stable and is extremely reduced in the quantity of unstable terminals even in a high polymerization yield in which trioxane as the principal monomer, comprises copolymerization of trioxane as the principal monomer with a cyclic ether or cyclic formal having at least one carbon-to-carbon bond as the comonomer by using a specific heteropoly-acid or acid salt thereof as a polymerization catalyst until the content of the remaining monomers is lowered to at most 10% by weight based on all the monomers fed, adding 0.01 to 10% by weight, based on the resulting crude polymer, of a solution containing a catalyst deactivator, or contacting a basic gas as the deactivator to deactivate the catalyst, and subjecting the crude polymer as such to heat melting treatment without washing thereof.

Abstract: In preparing a polyacetal copolymer through copolymerization of trioxane as the principal monomer with a cyclic ether or cyclic formal having at least one carbon-carbon bond as the comonomer, 0.05 to 100 ppm (on the weight basis), based on the total amount of the monomers, of a heteropoly-acid or an acidic salt thereof is used as a polymerization catalyst, and a liquid mixture preliminarily prepared by mixing at least part or the whole of the comonomer with the polymerization catalyst is added to trioxane to effect copolymerization. According to such the process, the polymerization yield and the degree of polymerization (molecular weight) are enhanced, and a polyacetal copolymer having an improved stability can be obtained.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing a thermally very stable polyacetal copolymer having very small unstable terminals even at a high polymerization yield, by the copolymerization of trioxane as the principal monomer with a comonomer copolymerizable therewith, wherein an isopolyacid or an acidic salt thereof is used as a polymerization catalyst; the catalyst can simply be deactivated in a small amount of a deactivator solution after the polymerization; and a washing step is not required. The copolymerization is effected with an isopolyacid or an acidic salt thereof used as a polymerization catalyst until the remaining monomers account for at most 10% by weight of all the fed monomers, and a solution containing a deactivator for the above catalyst is added in an amount of 0.01 to 10% by weight based on the resulting crude polymer to deactivate the catalyst, followed by subjecting the crude polymer intact to a heat-melting treatment without washing it.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to DNA sequences encoding human thyroid hormone receptor proteins and more particularly to DNA sequences encoding human thyroid hormone receptor protein designated hTR.alpha.1, to the polypeptide products of recombinant expression of these DNA sequences, to peptides whose sequences are based on amino acid sequences deduced from these DNA sequences, to antibodies specific for such proteins and peptides, and to procedures for detection and quantification of such proteins and nucleic acids related thereto.

Abstract: The DNA encoding human thyroid hormone receptor protein alpha-1 (hTR -1). This polynucleotide can be used as a probe to detect the presence of a third form of human thyroid hormone receptor protein.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for preparing 2.beta.-substituted-methylpenicillin derivative of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is H or carboxyl protecting group, R.sub.1 is H or halo, R.sub.2 is H, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, halogen, azido, lower alkylthio, phthalimide or a group --NHR.sub.3 (wherein R.sub.3 is H or acyl), and --N Y is an optionally substituted monocyclic or bicyclic heterocyclic group having 1 to 4 nitrogen atoms in the ring structure, the process comprising reacting a compound of the formula ##STR2## wherein X is Cl or Br, and R, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are as defined above with a heterocyclic compound of the formula ##STR3## wherein --N Y is as defined above.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing a penicillanic acid derivative of the formula ##STR1## which comprises reacting lead with a halogenated penicillanic acid derivative of the formula ##STR2## wherein X, Y, Z and R.sup.1 are as defined in the specification. The reaction is advantageously conducted in the presence of a metal having higher ionization tendency than lead such as aluminum, iron, magnesium or a mixture thereof.