Abstract: A server apparatus includes a storage medium configured to store print target data and information indicating whether the print target data has been printed and a processor configured to determine, based on the stored information, whether there is print target data that has not been printed by a printing apparatus and transmit the print target data to the printing apparatus, in a case that it is determined that there is the print target data that has not been printed by the printing apparatus.

Abstract: A communication system includes housing equipment, a relaying apparatus that communicates with the housing equipment, and a management device that communicates with the relaying apparatus via a communication network. The management device is configured to store user identification information sent from a communication terminal that communicates with the management device via the communication network, and association information associated with identification information of the relaying apparatus sent from the relaying apparatus, and permit first communication via the management device between the communication terminal and the relaying apparatus that have been associated with each other in the association information.

Abstract: A communication system includes housing equipment, a relaying apparatus that communicates with the housing equipment, and a management device that communicates with the relaying apparatus via a communication network. The management device is configured to store user identification information sent from a communication terminal that communicates with the management device via the communication network, and association information associated with identification information of the relaying apparatus sent from the relaying apparatus, and permit first communication via the management device between the communication terminal and the relaying apparatus that have been associated with each other in the association information.

Abstract: A communication adapter for collecting various kinds of information from a water-heating system and providing the information to an administration center via a wireless LAN router functions as an access point for providing a direct wireless communication with a smartphone; in response to a request from the smartphone via the direct wireless communication, it provides pairing authentication information to the smartphone; in response to a request from the smartphone, it initializes the wireless LAN connection information for the wireless LAN router to disconnect the wireless link to the wireless LAN router; and, when the wireless LAN connection information is set by its WPS function, it establishes a wireless link to the wireless LAN router and transmits the pairing authentication information to the administration center via the wireless LAN router.

Abstract: A communication adapter (4) for collecting various kinds of information from a water-heating system (1) and providing the information to an administration center (2) via a wireless LAN router (6) functions as an access point for providing a direct wireless communication with a smartphone (3); in response to a request from the smartphone (3) via the direct wireless communication, it provides pairing authentication information to the smartphone (3); in response to a request from the smartphone (3), it initializes the wireless LAN connection information for the wireless LAN router (6) to disconnect the wireless link to the wireless LAN router (6); and, when the wireless LAN connection information is set by its WPS function, it establishes a wireless link to the wireless LAN router (6) and transmits the pairing authentication information to the administration center (2) via the wireless LAN router (6).

Abstract: In a small-scale LAN relay adaptor for collecting various information from a hot-water supply system and transmitting the information to a management server via a wireless LAN router, three LEDs arranged in a single row and a control part for performing light emission control of the LEDs are included, wherein the control part is configured to be capable of switching an operation mode to a state display mode or a reception intensity display mode. During the state display mode, the control part issues a notification of the occurrence of three error states respectively using the three LEDs. On the other hand, during the reception intensity display mode, the control part performs reception intensity display processing for displaying the magnitude of reception intensity from the wireless LAN router using the three LEDs as a level meter.

Abstract: A communication adapter for transmitting information about a system being monitored, such as a multi-water-heater system, to a remote management apparatus and collecting information about the system being monitored allows the location of an abnormality in communication to be easily identified even when the adapter is communicably connected to the remote management apparatus via a communication relay unit, thereby improving the reliability of the information collection process. The communication adapter 11 includes a function for detecting an abnormality in communication between the communication adapter 11 and system being monitored 1, a function for detecting an abnormality in communication between the communication adapter 11 and communication relay unit 12, and a function for detecting an abnormality in communication between the communication relay unit 12 and remote management apparatus 6.

Abstract: Provided are a hot water using system and a relay device used therein. The hot water using system includes: a hot water server that is one example of hot water using equipment; a relay device that communicates with the hot water server and communicates with a management server via a communication network, the relay device having a communication setting switch (operation switches) that is placed outdoor and is operated when communication setting for communicating with the communication network is performed; and a switching part that is provided separately from the relay device and switches an operation through the communication setting switch between activation and inactivation.

Abstract: A communication adapter for transmitting information about a system being monitored, such as a multi-water-heater system, to a remote management apparatus and collecting information about the system being monitored allows the location of an abnormality in communication to be easily identified even when the adapter is communicably connected to the remote management apparatus via a communication relay unit, thereby improving the reliability of the information collection process. The communication adapter 11 includes a function for detecting an abnormality in communication between the communication adapter 11 and system being monitored 1, a function for detecting an abnormality in communication between the communication adapter 11 and communication relay unit 12, and a function for detecting an abnormality in communication between the communication relay unit 12 and remote management apparatus 6.

Abstract: A method for attenuating aerodynamic noise from a landing gear may include researching a start point of a shear layer as a flow field characteristic of a region in the vicinity of an original shape of the landing gear, and adding a plate-shaped object in the vicinity of the start point, changing the start point to an edge portion of the plate-shaped object to make the shear layer farther from the original shape. Another method for attenuating aerodynamic noise from a landing gear may include researching a static pressure and an airflow velocity in a region in the vicinity of the landing gear as a flow field characteristic of the region, and adding a plate-shaped object covering a surface of the landing gear which is different from a surface facing an upstream side in an airflow direction, increasing the static pressure in the region to reduce the airflow velocity.

Abstract: If an engine undergoes high-load operations immediately after it is started up from its cold state, a thermostat is closed to inhibit passage of cooling water through the inside of the engine, and the cooling water stagnant in a cylinder head receives heat from a combustion chamber. Therefore, the cooling water will possibly boil. However, the thermostat is formed in such a manner that a valve body may be opened forcedly if the discharge flow rate of a water pump is greater than the flow rate in a normal use region. Therefore, in such a situation, the discharge flow rate of the water pump is increased greater than the flow rate in the normal use region to open the valve body with good response, thereby passing water into the engine quickly. This configuration prevents the cooling water stagnant in the cylinder head from boiling before the valve body is opened completely.

Abstract: The invention is aimed at preventing bottom crack from occurring in a peelably laminated plastic container and maintaining the container stably in good in-use condition. This can be achieved by increasing the anti-peeling strength of a pair of rib strips, with which the bottom rib is formed, in the bottom seal that has been obtained by pinching off the parison at the bottom and molding the parison into a blow molded, peelably laminated plastic container. The bottom seal 13 of a blow molded, peelably laminated container 1 is reinforced by a pair of rib strips 14 which are pressed to each other to form the bottom rib 15. A multiple number of cavities 16 are formed in the bottom rib 15 in such a way that the rib strip 14 on one side is pushed toward, and caved into, the rib strip on the other side at several points, and vice verse. An expanded portion 18 is formed in the ceiling of each cavity 16.

Abstract: [Problem] The invention is aimed at preventing bottom crack from occurring in a peelably laminated plastic container and maintaining the container stably in good in-use condition. This can be achieved by increasing the anti-peeling strength of a pair of rib strips, with which the bottom rib is formed, in the bottom seal that has been obtained by pinching off the parison at the bottom and molding the parison into a blow molded, peelably laminated plastic container. [Solution] The bottom seal 13 of a blow molded, peelably laminated container 1 is reinforced by a pair of rib strips 14 which are pressed to each other to form the bottom rib 15. A multiple number of cavities 16 are formed in the bottom rib 15 in such a way that the rib strip 14 on one side is pushed toward, and caved into, the rib strip on the other side at several points, and vice verse. An expanded portion 18 is formed in the ceiling of each cavity 16.

Abstract: This perpendicular magnetic recording medium has a nonmagnetic substrate and a magnetic recording structure formed above the substrate. The magnetic recording structure has at least a soft magnetic underlayer, an intermediate layer and a magnetic layer. The substrate has a surface profile curve whose angle of inclination is 2.0 degree or less, or whose surface roughness of the substrate, with cycle (wavelength components) in the ranges of 83 nm or less to 30 nm or less, is 0.15 nm or less.

Abstract: A toner cartridge for an image forming apparatus including a case body having a tubular portion, first and second end walls, and first and second positioning members. The first positioning member radially protrudes from the first end wall and has a flat end face. The first positioning member, which is used for positioning the toner cartridge at the start of loading the toner cartridge into the image forming apparatus, is aligned with a first guide in the image forming apparatus at the start of loading the toner cartridge. The second positioning member, which radially protrudes from the second end wall of the cartridge and has a flat end face, is angularly shifted from the first positioning member. After the first positioning member is aligned with the guide, the cartridge is rotated to align the second positioning member with a second guide in said image forming apparatus.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a toner cartridge is removably set to a toner supply device and used while being set to the toner supply device, and the toner cartridge includes a main body with a toner supply port and a spiral agitator being disposed within the main body and rotated by drive means.The apparatus also includes a reserve tank for a toner dispensing section including a toner container for containing toner supplied from a cartridge, and a toner supply section for receiving toner from the toner container and supplying the received toner to a developing unit. The toner container includes a spiral agitator for supplying toner to the toner supply section. An auger for transferring toner to the developing unit is disposed in the toner supply section. A toner transfer power of the spiral agitator is larger than that of the auger.

Abstract: When a microfiche is automatically retrieved by a microfiche retrieval device, and the data of a target frame is input from the keyboard, the microfiche is conveyed to automatically retrieve the frame at the position relevant to the input data, and the largest frame is projected on a reader screen. The positional data for retrieving frames corresponding to the frame addresses other than that of the target frame and the fiche-mode data necessary for retrieving and outputting the imaged frames is stored in memory prior to retrieval of a frame. The stored data is read out so that the correct frame can be retrieved. Even if frames are not positionally aligned with the feeding direction of a particular microfiche or even if the reference frame or the maximum address frame is not exposed on a microfiche, frames can automatically be positioned at a high speed simply by designating a plurality arbitrary frames which are actually exposed with images.

Abstract: In a microfilm retrieval device, a frame which is at a position corresponding to its frame address is automatically retrieved and the object frame is projected on the screen of the reader. In such a device, the object frame must be accurately positioned at a positioning section irrespective of the types and size of microfilms and skew and pitch of frames. An arbitrary frame can be positioned and an accurate automatic retrieval can be realized even if no images are recorded in the reference frame or in the maximum address frames in both the row and the column, or if a microfilm is slanted in arrangement.

Abstract: In a microfilm retrieval device, the frame which is located at the position corresponding to the frame address is automatically retrieved to project the object frame on the screen of the reader. In such a retrieval device, it is necessary to be able to appropriately and precisely position the object frame regardless of the type and size of the frame pitch on the microfilm. Precise positioning of the object frame is accomplished by designating two arbitrary frames of different addresses and calculating the reference frame pitch between them.

Abstract: Stable oral preparations of 16-membered ring macrolide antibiotics such as SF-837, josamycin, 3"-propionyljosamycin, by incorporating stabilizers showing pH 3-10 in an aqueous medium, such as glycine, and dissolution accelerators showing pH 2.5-4 in an aqueous medium such as citric acid or tartaric acid. Coating such dissolution accelerators with a film-forming substance is useful to enhance the stability of the oral preparation of such antibiotics.