Abstract: An arrangement path of a tube arranged between an ink tank and a carriage is optimized in a case where the ink tank is arranged in an outer portion or the like of an ink jet printer main body. A liquid ejecting apparatus 1 includes a liquid ejecting apparatus main body 2 that ejects a liquid from a liquid ejecting head which is mounted on a carriage, a liquid accommodating body 110 that is arranged in an external area or the like of the liquid ejecting apparatus main body 2, and liquid supply tubes 120 that are arranged between the liquid accommodating body 110 and the carriage. The liquid ejecting apparatus further includes a paper discharge frame that is arranged along a scanning direction of the liquid ejecting head on a further forward side than the liquid ejecting head. A part of the liquid supply tubes 120 is fixed to a frame member paper discharge frame.

Abstract: Provided is a recording apparatus allowing for a reduction in size of an ink jet recording apparatus. An ink jet recording apparatus includes a head unit that has a recording head which ejects ink and a relay adapter which relays an ink accommodating portion where ink is accommodated with the recording head, and is movable in a scanning direction of the recording head, and an ink tube that is connected to the relay adapter, guides ink which is sent from the ink accommodating portion to the relay adapter, and has flexibility, in which a height difference is formed in an upper portion of an adapter accommodating portion, where the relay adapter is accommodated, of the head unit, and the ink tube extends outside the head unit by using a space between a high position and a low position of the adapter accommodating portion.

Abstract: To provide an image evaluation apparatus and camera which are capable of evaluating an image which is comprehensively good. An image evaluation apparatus comprising: a storage portion which stores a plurality of images when an imaging portion of a camera has continuously imaged in a predetermined time interval a plurality of frames of a subject in a photographing area of the camera, and an image evaluation portion which evaluates a plurality of the images stored in the storage portion, based on a characteristic amount showing a state in which the subject in the photographing area changing in chronological sequence, when the plurality of the images is imaged.

Abstract: An image detection device includes: a subject detector that acquires image information in an image field of an imaging optics with an image sensor, and detects a position of a subject in the image field based upon reference information related to an image of the subject and the image information; and a magnification detector that detects a magnification of the imaging optics. And the subject detector starts operation to detect the position of the subject, when the magnification has become greater than or equal to a predetermined value.

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes a head unit, a discharge port including a region where a recording medium on which a recording is performed by the recording head is discharged and an ink tube having flexibility, that is connected to the head unit and leads the ink from an ink containing unit. The ink tube protrudes to the outside of the apparatus from discharge port side of the front surface.

Abstract: A swinging motion reducing apparatus includes a flywheel 20, a gimbal 11, a gimbal supporting section 12, a damper 13 and a lock mechanism 14. The gimbal 11 rotatably supports the flywheel 20. The gimbal supporting section 12 supports the gimbal 11 through a gimbal shaft 15 such that the gimbal 11 can swing. The damper 13 brakes a swinging motion of the gimbal 11. The lock mechanism 14 locks a swinging motion of the gimbal 11.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly is provided with a plug connector and a receptacle connector. The plug connector includes a housing and a plurality of conductive plug terminals arranged along a row in the housing. The receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing, a plurality of conductive receptacle terminals arranged along a row in the receptacle housing by an equidistance pitch, and a solder peg having a contact portion arranged along the row of the plurality of conductive receptacle terminals at a distance equal to the equidistance pitch.

Abstract: An electronic camera includes: an image-capturing unit with variable image-capturing sensitivity, which captures an image of a subject through a photographic lens; a brightness detection unit that detects subject brightness; an exposure calculation unit that executes an exposure calculation by using the image-capturing sensitivity set at the image-capturing unit and the detected subject brightness; a flash quantity calculation unit that calculates a main flash quantity for a flash unit that illuminates the subject when capturing an image thereof; and a sensitivity adjusting unit that adjusts the image-capturing sensitivity so as to achieve optimal exposure with a main flash quantity within a flash quantity control range of the flash unit when the main flash quantity calculated by the flash quantity calculation unit is outside the flash quantity control range.

Abstract: Provided is a chair suited to the use of a keyboard or mouse, the chair has a seat 3 and a rocking backrest 4. The seat 3 comprises a first section 3a, 12a and a second section 3b, 12b. The first section 3a of the seat 3 is affixed to a seat-mounting shell 11 is attached to a base 9, via a seat-mounting fixture, so as to be slide forwards and backwards. The backrest 4 has a back cover 14, a back panel 15 and a cushion move downwards while rotating in a seesaw fashion during rocking. The front end of the back cover 14 is connected to the seat-mounting fixture 10 by means of a connecting pin 25. When the chair rocks, the seat 3 moves forwards as a whole while the second section 3b tilts backward.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a paper supply tray 31 that is provided on an upstream side of a transport direction in which recording paper P is transported, and which can feed the recording paper P from a first aperture portion 21 provided in a housing 20, a guide member 33, which is provided in the paper supply tray 31 wall surface portion 21a of the housing 20, and an ink tube 50 that passes through gap sections S1 and S2 between the guide member 33 and the wall surface portion and supplies ink from an ink accommodation portion 60 which is provided outside the housing 20 to a recording head 43 that is attached to a carriage 41.

Abstract: A method for producing toluenedicarbamate includes a carbamate production process of producing toluenedicarbamate by reaction between toluenediamine, urea, and/or N-unsubstituted carbamic acid ester, and alcohol; and a benzoyleneurea reduction process of reducing a disubstituted benzoyleneurea and a derivative thereof to 10 mol or less relative to 100 mol of toluenedicarbamate, wherein the disubstituted benzoyleneurea is represented by formula (1) below and has a methyl group and an amino group:

Abstract: It is provided an optical receiver comprising a compensator, a compensation controller and a clock extractor. The optical receiver selects first and second values, and obtains a stabilization time necessary to change the dispersion value and a transition time shorter than the stabilization time, compensates the received optical signal using the selected first value, changes the dispersion value from the first value into the second value, compensates the received optical signal using the dispersion value when the transition time has passed since starting to change the dispersion value, creates second extraction information of the dispersion value after the transition time, compensates for dispersion of the optical signal using an dispersion value calculated based on the second value and the difference between the dispersion value after the transition time and the second value in a case where the created second extraction information indicates that the clock extraction is available.

Abstract: To provide an image evaluation apparatus and camera which are capable of evaluating an image which is comprehensively good. An image evaluation apparatus comprising: a storage portion which stores a plurality of images when an imaging portion of a camera has continuously imaged in a predetermined time interval a plurality of frames of a subject in a photographing area of the camera, and an image evaluation portion which evaluates a plurality of the images stored in the storage portion, based on a characteristic amount showing a state in which the subject in the photographing area changing in chronological sequence, when the plurality of the images is imaged.

Abstract: [Task] To provide an active energy ray-curable composition capable of forming within a short time a cured coating film having a favorable outer appearance and excellent abrasion resistance, cracking resistance, and weather resistant adhesiveness, a laminate having the cured coating film laminated on a substrate surface, and a method for producing the same.

Abstract: A photometric device includes a storage-type photometric sensor, a first control means that performs accumulation control on the photometric sensor based upon an average value of an output of the photometric sensor, a second control means that performs accumulation control on the photometric sensor based upon a maximum value of the output of the photometric sensor, and an accumulation control means that controls the second control means to perform next accumulation control, if the maximum value of the output of the photometric sensor on which the accumulation control is performed by the first control means exceeds a saturation output level of the photometric sensor, and controls the first control means to perform next accumulation control, if the maximum value of the output of the photometric sensor does not exceed the saturation output level of the photometric sensor.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a cable support member having high durability and excellent manufacturing performance. A cable support member of the invention includes: a plurality of holding members; and an elastic member. Each holding member has an elastic member insertion passage through which the elastic member is inserted, and has joint surfaces enabling a rotation of the holding member with coming into contact with the adjacent holding members at both sides in the longitudinal direction. The elastic member is inserted through the elastic member insertion passages in the holding members so as to align and maintain the holding members, and exerts a compression force on the holding members. With such a configuration, a neutral state where the cable support member is substantially in a linear fashion and a curved state where the cable support member is bending-deformed are obtainable.

Abstract: A transmission system is provided in a synchronous network, for establishing synchronization with a degree of precision and at a speed being comparable levels as a conventional technique, and further decreasing the probability of out-of-synchronization occurrence. In the present invention, a synchronization signal is detected without performing error correction until synchronization is established, and after the synchronization is established, it is monitored whether or not out-of-synchronization occurs, according to the synchronization signal that has been subjected to the error correction.

Abstract: A Pentamethylene diisocyanate is obtained by phosgenating pentamethylenediamine or its salt obtained by a biochemical method, and contains 5 to 400 ppm of a compound represented by the general formula (1) below and a compound represented by the general formula (2) below in total:

Abstract: A subject tracking apparatus includes a region extraction section extracting a region similar to a reference image in a first image based on respective feature amounts of the first image being picked up and the reference image being set, a motion vector calculating section calculating a motion vector in each of a plurality of regions in the first image using a second image and the first image, the second image being picked up at a different time from that of the first image, and a control section determining an object region of subject tracking in the first image based on an extraction result in the region extraction section and a calculation result in the motion vector calculating section.

Abstract: A photometric device includes: an imaging unit that captures an image formed by an optical system, with a marker capable of switching between display and non-display disposed in a light path of the optical system; and a correction unit that, based upon a difference between a first image captured by the imaging unit in a state where the marker is displayed and a second image captured by the imaging unit in a state where the marker is not displayed, performs a correction of a third image that is different from the first image and the second image.