Abstract: In an acoustic sensor, a diaphragm arranged on an upper side of a silicon substrate includes a back chamber, and an anchor supports the diaphragm. An insulating plate portion fixed to an upper surface of the silicon substrate covers the diaphragm with a gap. A conductive fixed electrode film arranged on a lower surface of the plate portion configures a back plate. The change in electrostatic capacitance between the fixed electrode film and the diaphragm outputs to the outside from a fixed side electrode pad and a movable side electrode pad as an electric signal. A protective film is arranged continuously with the plate portion at an outer periphery of the plate portion. The protective film covers the outer peripheral part of the upper surface of the silicon substrate, and the outer periphery of the protective film coincides with the outer periphery of the upper surface of the silicon substrate.

Abstract: A cavity is provided in a substrate so as to penetrate from a front surface to a back surface of the substrate. A thin-film diaphragm for sensing acoustic vibrations above the substrate is provided over the cavity. At least one wall surface of the cavity is configured of a first inclined surface between the front surface of the substrate and a middle portion in the thickness direction, the first inclined surface gradually widening toward the outside of the substrate as the first inclined surface goes from the front surface of the substrate toward the middle portion, and a second inclined surface between the middle portion and the back surface of the substrate, the second inclined surface gradually narrowing toward the inside of the substrate as the second inclined surface goes from the middle portion toward the back surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A hollow part is formed in a silicon substrate through the front and the back. A vibration electrode plate is arranged on an upper surface of the silicon substrate to cover the opening on the upper surface. A fixed electrode plate covers the upper side of the vibration electrode plate while maintaining a microscopic gap with the vibration electrode plate, where the peripheral part is fixed to the upper surface of the silicon substrate. The fixed electrode plate has the portion facing the upper surface of the silicon substrate through a space supported by a side wall portion arranged on an inner edge of the portion fixed to the upper surface of the silicon substrate without interposing a space. The outer surface of the side wall portion of the fixed electrode plate is covered by a reinforcement film made of metal such as Au, Cr, and Pt.

Abstract: In an acoustic sensor, a diaphragm arranged on an upper side of a silicon substrate includes a back chamber, and an anchor supports the diaphragm. An insulating plate portion fixed to an upper surface of the silicon substrate covers the diaphragm with a gap. A conductive fixed electrode film arranged on a lower surface of the plate portion configures a back plate. The change in electrostatic capacitance between the fixed electrode film and the diaphragm outputs to the outside from a fixed side electrode pad and a movable side electrode pad as an electric signal. A protective film is arranged continuously with the plate portion at an outer periphery of the plate portion. The protective film covers the outer peripheral part of the upper surface of the silicon substrate, and the outer periphery of the protective film coincides with the outer periphery of the upper surface of the silicon substrate.

Abstract: A hollow part is formed in a silicon substrate through the front and the back. A vibration electrode plate is arranged on an upper surface of the silicon substrate to cover the opening on the upper surface. A fixed electrode plate covers the upper side of the vibration electrode plate while maintaining a microscopic gap with the vibration electrode plate, where the peripheral part is fixed to the upper surface of the silicon substrate. The fixed electrode plate has the portion facing the upper surface of the silicon substrate through a space supported by a side wall portion arranged on an inner edge of the portion fixed to the upper surface of the silicon substrate without interposing a space. The outer surface of the side wall portion of the fixed electrode plate is covered by a reinforcement film made of metal such as Au, Cr, and Pt.

Abstract: Disclosed is a laser printer for forming an image by transferring images one after another to a printing medium from a plurality of photosensitive drums disposed along the transport path of the printing medium. The printer includes data processing units provided in correspondence with the drums in a number smaller than the number of drums, each of the data processing units processing an image signal and generating image data for image formation, and data transfer units, which are provided in correspondence with respective ones of the data processing units, for supplying the image forming units with image data that has been generated by the data processing units. If the length of the printing medium along the medium transport path is less than the overall length along which the plurality of drums are disposed, decoders and FIFO buffers are assigned commonly to one video interface and video data generated by these decoders is output to corresponding ones of video interfaces via the FIFO buffers.

Abstract: A print control apparatus, which is connected to a multifunctional printer for printing images based on various data including at least facsimile data, comprises: a detector for detecting a call signal CI transmitted through a telephone line; a checker for checking the status of a print operation by the multifunctional printer, when the detector detects the call signal CI; and a controller for controlling timing of capturing the telephone line in response to the call signal CI detected by the detector, in accordance with the checked result of the checker. Thus, even if the call signal CI is detected while the print operation is being performed, the print operation can be optimally controlled, and also timing to capture the line can be controlled.

Abstract: A bill processing device to prevent drawing-out of a bill with a simple structure is provided. In a bill processing device having a bent bill path, a long channel along a conveying direction of a bill is provided on a path surface that forms the bill path and is bent to be convex, a plurality of the long channels are provided in parallel in a transverse direction of the bill path, projections extending from respective side walls or bottom surfaces of the plurality of long channels are included, and the projections each have a first surface inclined to a bottom surface side of the long channel to guide a string-shaped or band-shaped foreign matter conveyed with a bill to enter the long channel, and a second surface horizontal or inclined to the bottom surface side of the channel to inhibit the foreign matter which has entered the long channel from exiting from the long channel.

Abstract: The bill discriminating device includes: a body; and a mask portion, the body includes a main substrate having a light source, the mask portion includes a bill insertion port formed to be placed in a front surface of the bill discriminating device, and a bill chute passage having one end connected to a bill conveying passage and the other end extending to the bill insertion port, at least one surface of the bill chute passage is formed of a light guide member including a portion extending from the light source to the bill insertion port, and light emitted from the light source is optically connected to the bill insertion port via the light guide member.

Abstract: The bill discriminating device comprises: a bill discriminating portion (2) that discriminates inserted bills; a bill accommodating portion (7) that accommodates bills determined as effective and includes a lift member (4) that aligns and presses the effective bills; and a body (1) to which the bill discriminating portion (2) and the bill accommodating portion (7) are mounted, wherein the device further includes: a first switch portion (5) mounted to the bill discriminating portion (2) and having an electrical function; and a second switch portion (4a) placed on the lift member (4) and having no electrical function, the first switch portion (5) and the second switch portion (4a) are combined to constitute one switch means when the bill discriminating portion (2) is mounted to the body (1) and the lift member (4) is placed in a predetermined position, and one switch means generates a first output signal.

Abstract: A bill processing apparatus which has a shutter portion for opening and closing a bill conveyance path and a stack portion for storing a bill guided along the bill conveyance path into a bill storage portion, and which includes a driver portion that causes a single drive portion (stack motor) to drive the shutter portion and the stack portion, in which the drive portion comprises a first driving member (a front end of a stack link) that drives the shutter portion and a second driving member (protruding face of the stack link) that drives the stack portion; and an unoperated region in which the shutter portion or the stack portion does not operate with respect to the operation of at least one of the first driving member and the second driving member.

Abstract: Disclosed is a laser printer for forming an image by transferring images one after another to a printing medium from a plurality of photosensitive drums disposed along the transport path of the printing medium. The printer includes data processing units provided in correspondence with the drums in a number smaller than the number of drums, each of the data processing units processing an image signal and generating image data for image formation, and data transfer units, which are provided in correspondence with respective ones of the data processing units, for supplying the image forming units with image data that has been generated by the data processing units. If the length of the printing medium along the medium transport path is less than the overall length along which the plurality of drums are disposed, decoders and FIFO buffers are assigned commonly to one video interface and video data generated by these decoders is output to corresponding ones of video interfaces via the FIFO buffers.

Abstract: A print control apparatus, which is connected to a multifunctional printer for printing images based on various data including at least facsimile data, comprises: a detector for detecting a call signal CI transmitted through a telephone line; a checker for checking the status of a print operation by the multifunctional printer, when the detector detects the call signal CI; and a controller for controlling timing of capturing the telephone line in response to the call signal CI detected by the detector, in accordance with the checked result of the checker. Thus, even if the call signal CI is detected while the print operation is being performed, the print operation can be optimally controlled, and also timing to capture the line can be controlled.

Abstract: A coin handling device, as a first invention, comprising a cable (20), a liquid guide means (61) for guiding liquid falling via a cable guide hole (10a) into a device body (2), a liquid storing means (62) and a liquid discharging means (63). A coin handling device, as a second invention, wherein a coin selection unit (101, 201) comprising a coin guide means (181), a liquid collecting means (182) and a liquid discharging means (183) is equipped with a liquid flow-in means (184) for allowing liquid falling via the coin guide means (181) to flow into those portions of the coin selection unit (101, 201) other than the liquid sorting means (182), a liquid passing means (185) and a liquid flowout means (186, 216) for continuously feeding the passed liquid to the liquid discharging means (183).

Abstract: A cam groove in a shuttling mechanism for shuttling a slide piece is formed into a generally S-shape, in order to provide a long shuttling distance of the slide piece which dispenses one by one coins stacked and stored in a coin tube, without sizable design changes of component parts.

Abstract: A coin discharge device has a removable coin tube cassette and an empty sensor 5 for accurately detecting the presence of coins within the coin tubes. A sensor mounting 30 is designed to withdraw the sensor 5 from the cassette accommodation part 22 when the coin tube cassette is removed from the device. However, when the coin tube device is inserted into the cassette accommodation part 22, the sensor mounting 30 moves the sensor 5 into the accommodation part 22 so that it abuts one side of the coin tube cassette to sense coins therein.