Abstract: A diaphragm valve is used to perform opening/closing operations to switch between a state where two flow paths 14a and 15a communicate with each other and a state where the flow paths 14a and 14b are blocked from communicating with each other. A diaphragm unit 31 which is disposed in a valve housing 13 has a hollow valve body 32 capable of being reciprocated in the axial direction, the diaphragm unit 31 is formed with a communication flow path 32a through which two flow paths 14a and 14b are communicated with each other. A first diaphragm 34 is provided to one end portion of a hollow valve body 32, and a second diaphragm 36 is provided to the other end of the hollow valve body 32, when the hollow valve body 32 is moved in its axial direction and abuts on a valve seat portion 42, the communication flow path 32a is closed.

Abstract: A diaphragm valve is used to perform opening/closing operations to switch between a state where two flow paths 14a and 15a communicate with each other and a state where the flow paths 14a and 14b are blocked from communicating with each other. A diaphragm unit 31 which is disposed in a valve housing 13 has a hollow valve body 32 capable of being reciprocated in the axial direction, the diaphragm unit 31 is formed with a communication flow path 32a through which two flow paths 14a and 14b are communicated with each other. A first diaphragm 34 is provided to one end portion of a hollow valve body 32, and a second diaphragm 36 is provided to the other end of the hollow valve body 32, when the hollow valve body 32 is moved in its axial direction and abuts on a valve seat portion 42, the communication flow path 32a is closed.

Abstract: With a view to making it possible to load a cassette onto a to-be-loaded body in a slack-free good condition of a web accommodated in the cassette, preventing the entry of dust into engaging grooves after the loading of the cassette, and permitting the loading of only such a cassette as is suitable for the loading, there is provided a winding core in a ribbon cassette which accommodates an ink ribbon in a wound-up state, the winding core having a plurality of engaging grooves formed circumferentially in its peripheral surface for engagement with a plurality of engaging projections formed circumferentially at equal intervals on an outer peripheral surface of a winding bobbin of the to-be-loaded body onto which the cassette is to be loaded, the engaging grooves each having side engaging portions for engagement with side faces of each engaging projection and an upper engaging portion for engagement with an axial tip face of each engaging projection in an abutted or covering relation thereto.