Abstract: An intake and exhaust device (1) for a vehicle engine is capable to perform a compression self-ignition operation, the device comprising on an intake passage a supercharger (9) driven by a force other than an exhaust gas, wherein an exhaust purification device (18) disposed on an exhaust passage is disposed adjacent to an outer surface of the engine (2).

Abstract: An exhaust structure of a vehicle is provided that can ensure an arrangement space for a mounted component below a floor panel and prevent thermal damage to the mounted component by reducing sizes of an engine and an exhaust silencer. An exhaust structure of a vehicle includes: an engine disposed in an engine bay formed in a front part of a vehicle; a silencer that reduces noise of exhaust gas from the engine and discharges the exhaust gas outside; an exhaust pipe that couples the engine and the silencer; and a battery unit disposed behind the engine and below a floor panel, the silencer being disposed between the engine and the battery unit.

Abstract: A exhaust gas purifier includes a case having a flat transverse section including a pair of facing short sides and a pair of facing long sides, and configured to house a catalytic converter, and an inlet cone including a conical portion, and configured to connect an outlet of the turbine to an inlet of the case. The conical portion includes an inclined wall inclined from a mainstream of the exhaust gas to increase the transverse section of a path of the exhaust gas. A recess recessed inward is formed in a portion corresponding to each of the long sides of the inclined wall of the conical portion.

Abstract: A casing has a guide sheet attached or printed on the inner side thereof which has a written guide such as an illustration for informing a user of an installation position of a page-turning main body section and an installation position of an imaging apparatus stand for each book size. This guide sheet has written thereon markers each representing a placement position on a holding table for each book size and symbols each representing an installation position of the page-turning main body section adapted to a book size with the holding table on the casing as a reference for each of the markers. Also, on the guide sheet, installation positions of the page-turning main body section are written corresponding to the symbols.

Abstract: A stand installation plate that is a mounting plate for fixing an imaging apparatus stand at a predetermined angle is attached to a constituent surface corresponding to a back portion of a casing with a screw. This stand installation plate is horizontally rotatable with the screw as a rotation axis. At a predetermined position on the stand installation plate, a male screw that is a fixing section is provided. When using a page turner, a user installs the imaging apparatus stand on the stand installation plate such that the male screw is inserted into a hole formed in a bottom plate of a leg section. Then, by screwing a cap provided with a female screw into the male screw, the user fixed the imaging apparatus stand on the stand installation plate.

Abstract: When a page turner is to be accommodated, a holding table is folded, and an air blowing section is rotated and moved toward a side surface of an accommodation case where a page-turning mechanism can be accommodated, whereby the upper surface of the accommodation case and the air blowing port of the air blowing section are substantially flush with each other. Also, an expansion unit is removed from the holding table, and a casing is closed to cover a page-turning main body section constituted by the accommodation case and the air blowing section and the holding table. As a result, the entire page turner is accommodated in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape whose vertical and horizontal size is equal to a vertical and horizontal size of a predetermined book. Finally, the page turner is inserted between a pair of side plates constituting leg sections in an image pickup apparatus stand.

Abstract: A casing is constituted by four constituent surfaces. When a page-turner is to be accommodated, a holding table for holding a book in an opened state and a page-turning main body section which turns pages of the book are accommodated in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped area formed by the four constituent surfaces. Here, in consideration of workability at the time of use, the page turner is accommodated such that the page-turning main body section is positioned on the upper side and two holding plates constituting the holding table are positioned on the lower side with the casing standing upright. The page-turning main body section is supported from below by one holding plate and the other holding plate positioned diagonally to the page-turning main body section without a special supporting means being provided.

Abstract: A page turner which turns pages of a book, including a holding table which holds the book in an opened state, amain body section which turns each page of the opened book from a page-turning start point to a page-turning end point, a casing which is constituted by a plurality of constituent surfaces, and accommodates the holding table and the main body section in a rectangular parallelepiped shape formed of the plurality of constituent surfaces when the page turner is accommodated; and a stand on which an imaging apparatus for photographing each page of the book is placed, in which the stand includes a pair of self-standing leg sections, and support the rectangular parallelepiped casing with the casing being held upright and interposed between the pair of leg sections when the page turner is accommodated.

Abstract: A page-turner restricts the movement of a page to be turned by pressing a predetermined upper surface on the binding side of the page by an arm until, an end of the page starts to be caught at a page-turning end point by a catching section, in synchronization with a page-turning operation. The page turner rotates the arm so the arm enters a released state which is a substantially vertical state at timing at which the page separates from a sticking section and starts to be caught by the catching section. The page to be turned is pulled in by a page holding section while being inclined without the end of the page curling in a U shape.

Abstract: Support auxiliary members are each constituted by an elongate member having a triangular prism shape and extending from one end to the other end of a holding plate. The support auxiliary member is arranged between a book holder and the final page of a book at a page-turning start point, and supports the vicinity of a binding portion of the book so as to lift it from below. The support auxiliary member is arranged between the holding plate and a spine portion of the book placed on the holding plate, and supports the spine portion. The support auxiliary members form a V-shaped structure only in the vicinity of the binding portion of the book because of their shapes and installation positions, whereby the spine portion of the book is held in a downwardly curved state.

Abstract: A printer includes a processor; a thermal head driver circuit that drives a thermal head for printing on a printing medium; a motor driver circuit that drives a motor configured to convey the printing medium; and a power supply circuit that includes a capacitor and a first switching circuit to charge the capacitor, the power supply circuit supplying electrical power to the thermal head driver circuit and the motor driver circuit via the capacitor, wherein the processor, when stopping operation of the printer, performs a control process of discharging the capacitor via the motor driver circuit and the motor.

Abstract: The book page turning operation of an automatic page turning apparatus is controlled by a tablet. Every time the automatic page turning apparatus completes a page turning operation, the tablet photographs the page and stores its image. During this processing, the tablet stops the series of page turning operations of the automatic page turning apparatus every time a sequential page-turning count m reaches a preset interruption page count M. Then, the tablet restarts the series of page turning operations in response to a photographing restart instruction from the user. As a result of this configuration, the user is freed from an operation of stopping a page turning operation during image photographing.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a print head, a first cutter and a processor. The print head performs printing on a printing medium. The first cutter cuts the printing medium on which the print head has performed the printing. The first cutter trims away a corner at an end in a width direction of the printing medium. The processor controls the print head and the first cutter based on cutting information on an area to be trimmed by the first cutter so that a printing area of the printing medium is not cut by the first cutter.

Abstract: A printer includes a processor; a thermal head driver circuit that drives a thermal head for printing on a printing medium; a motor driver circuit that drives a motor configured to convey the printing medium; and a power supply circuit that includes a capacitor and a first switching circuit to charge the capacitor, the power supply circuit supplying electrical power to the thermal head driver circuit and the motor driver circuit via the capacitor, wherein the processor, when stopping operation of the printer, performs a control process of discharging the capacitor via the motor driver circuit and the motor.

Abstract: An apparatus which turns a page of an open book, includes an arm; a sticking part which is attached to a tip portion of an arm, wherein, the sticking part comes into contact with a page at a departure position and the sticking part separates from a page at a destination position; a driver which drives the arm to make the sticking part perform a to-and-fro movement between the departure position and the destination position; and a controller which controls the driver to temporarily stop the movement of the sticking part on a way to the destination position from the departure position.

Abstract: A plurality of captured images having a successive relation is displayed on a display screen with the successive relation being maintained. Then, when the plurality of captured images include a plurality of first captured images acquired by a plurality of successive photographing operations and a second captured image acquired by an individual photographing operation different from the plurality of successive photographing operations, the second captured image is displayed such that it is differentiated from the plurality of first captured images by, for example, the background area of the second captured image being represented in a display form different from that of another area.

Abstract: An apparatus which turns a page of an open book includes a tuning mechanism, a drive unit and a control unit. The turning mechanism brings a predetermined member into contact with a page at a departure position and separates the page from the predetermined member at a destination position. The page is moved with the predetermined member. The drive unit drives the turning mechanism to make the predetermined member perform a to-and-fro movement between the departure position and the destination position. The control unit which controls the drive unit to temporarily stop the movement of the predetermined member on a way to the destination position from the departure position.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first correction amount acquiring unit and a first correction unit. The first correction amount acquiring unit acquires a first luminance correction amount of each block based on the luminance of each pixel in the block obtained by dividing a first image among multiple processing target images obtained by imaging a target object with multiple sheets bound together while opening the target object. The first correction unit corrects the luminance of each pixel in the multiple processing target images based on the first luminance correction amount of each block acquired by the first correction amount acquiring unit.

Abstract: A exhaust gas purifier includes a case having a flat transverse section including a pair of facing short sides and a pair of facing long sides, and configured to house a catalytic converter, and an inlet cone including a conical portion, and configured to connect an outlet of the turbine to an inlet of the case. The conical portion includes an inclined wall inclined from a mainstream of the exhaust gas to increase the transverse section of a path of the exhaust gas. A recess recessed inward is formed in a portion corresponding to each of the long sides of the inclined wall of the conical portion.

Abstract: A user is allowed to set contents of imaging work for digitization of a book using a page turning device to turn over each page of the book in a spread state from an original position to a destination position and settings of the imaging work are stored in advance. When a user commands initiation of the imaging work, the stored settings are confirmed and an imaging operation screen to present, to the user, guidance information related to an imaging procedure corresponding to the settings is separately displayed.