Abstract: A refrigerating and air-conditioning apparatus is provided, with which a cold-storage/refrigeration load and air-conditioning loads such as a cooling load and a heating load can be simultaneously processed and a stable heat source can be supplied throughout the year. In the refrigerating and air-conditioning apparatus, heating energy or cooling energy stored in the primary-side refrigerant is usable as an air-conditioning load through the indoor heat exchanger while cooling energy stored in the primary-side refrigerant is transferred to the secondary-side refrigerant circulated in the cold-storage/refrigeration refrigeration cycle through the first refrigerant-refrigerant heat exchanger so as to be usable as a cold-storage/refrigeration load.

Abstract: A printing apparatus 1 compares a distance ? from a printing finish position of received printing data to a card rear end with a distance ? set corresponding to a peeling distance ? in which an ink ribbon R peels off from a card C, and thereby determines whether or not the printing finish position is within the distance ? from the card rear end. As a result, when it is determined that the printing finish position is within the distance ? from the card rear end, it is controlled that reeling of the ink ribbon R is performed by at least a distance obtained by adding the distance ? to the distance ? after printing on the card C is finished, and that the thermal head is then retreated to a retreat position. By this means, when the printing finish position is in the vicinity of the card rear end, the sag of the ink ribbon pulled out by a drop of the thermal head is resolved, and the ink ribbon does not wind itself around the platen roller.

Abstract: Based on an input operation by an operator, a line drawing processor sets a designated region and sets identification points in the designated region to generate first and second identification data, each data representing a colored pixel cluster linked to each of the identification points. The line drawing processor further extracts at least one closed region that is not colored in the second identification data and makes a comparison in area between each closed region and the pixel cluster colored in the second identification data to determine whether the closed region requires coloring or not. For line drawing data, the line drawing processor then applies the same color to the pixel cluster identified in the second identification data and the closed region determined to require coloring.

Abstract: A printing device 1 is provided with a housing 2, and a card stacker 3 is disposed above the housing 2. The card stacker 3 stores cards to be placed parallel in a laminate manner. Inside the housing 2 are stored a card rotating section 4, linear card transport path CP each disposed below the card stacker 3, printing section PR provided below the card transport path CP, various sensors, and control section. A card storage section 29 is disposed on the most downstream side of the card transport path CP. The card storage section 29 stores processed cards to overlap in a laminate manner. The card stacker 3 enables the supply number of cards to be increased, and it is possible to increase the height of the card storage section 29 by the card transport path CP positioning in the upper portion inside the housing 2. By this means, the invention provides the printing device capable of supporting large-amount discharge in response to large-amount supply of printing media while miniaturizing the device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a printing device which provides high printing quality. The printing device includes: an image forming section which has a thermal head 9 and a platen roller 12; a media conveyance section for conveying an intermediate transfer film F; a ribbon conveyance section for conveying an ink ribbon R; a sensor 10 for detecting a first mark formed on the film F; and a control section for controlling the image forming section, the media conveyance section, and the ribbon conveyance section in accordance with output information from the sensor 10.

Abstract: A cartridge detachably attached to a printer apparatus includes a casing, an ink ribbon provided in the casing, a supply spool provided in the casing for supplying the ink ribbon, and a take-up spool provided in the casing for retrieving the ink ribbon. The printer apparatus includes a locking member rotatably supported on the printer apparatus and locking the cartridge to the printer apparatus, a detection device for detecting an installation of the cartridge by detecting a locked state of the locking member, a locking portion for locking the locking member when the cartridge is installed in the printer apparatus, and a guide forcefully and rotatingly displacing the locking member from a locking position when the cartridge is pulled out from the printer apparatus.

Abstract: A connecting rod is a fracture split-type connecting rod made of an ?+? type titanium alloy, including a rod main body and a big end provided at an end of the rod main body, the big end being fracture-split. The structure of the rod main body is an equiaxed ? structure, and the structure of fractured surfaces of the big end is an acicular ? structure.

Abstract: Multi-level gradation representation data D2 obtained by representing line drawing data D1 with a multi-level gradation is acquired, and cores are extracted from a line drawing. Further, a closed region surrounded by a core and smaller than a predetermined reference is selected. Then, the barycentric point of the selected closed region is determined, and a plurality of adjacent points adjacent to the barycentric point on the basis of a predetermined distance are defined. Thereafter, by reference to the multi-level gradation representation data D2, gradation values corresponding to the barycentric point and each of the adjacent points are acquired and compared with each other. Further, an adjacent point having the closest gradation value to the gradation value corresponding to the barycentric point is selected. Then, a boundary line lying between a closed region including the barycentric point and a closed region including the selected adjacent point is deleted.

Abstract: A method includes a grinding step of forming the shape of a contact surface, a grooving step of roughening the shaped contact surface to form grooves therein, and a contact surface lapping step of lapping the contact surface having the grooves with a lapping film to form oil grooves for holding a lubricant oil. The surface roughness of the contact surface is such that the maximum height roughness Rz is 4 ?m or less, the mean length RSm of the roughness profile elements is 30 to 60 ?m, the skewness Rsk of the roughness profile is ?2.7 to ?0.6 (no unit), the reduced peak height Rpk is 0.09 ?m or less, and the reduced valley depth Rvk is 0.4 to 1.3 ?m.

Abstract: A printing apparatus has a casing, a card supply opening at one side of the casing, a printing unit that performs a predetermined recording to a card supplied from the card supply opening, nip rollers that nip the card when being recorded at the printing unit, a magnetic encoder unit disposed adjacent to the printing unit that performs a predetermined recording to the card nipped by the rollers, and a card discharge outlet that discharges the card recorded at the printing and/or magnetic encoder units. The card supply opening, the printing unit and the magnetic encoder unit are disposed sequentially and substantially horizontally along the card conveyance path, and the card discharge outlet is provided in a side of the casing so that the card supply opening and card discharge output are positioned substantially vertically.

Abstract: A printing apparatus 1 compares a distance ? from a printing finish position of received printing data to a card rear end with a distance ? set corresponding to a peeling distance ? in which an ink ribbon R peels off from a card C, and thereby determines whether or not the printing finish position is within the distance ? from the card rear end. As a result, when it is determined that the printing finish position is within the distance ? from the card rear end, it is controlled that reeling of the ink ribbon R is performed by at least a distance obtained by adding the distance ? to the distance ? after printing on the card C is finished, and that the thermal head is then retreated to a retreat position. By this means, when the printing finish position is in the vicinity of the card rear end, the sag of the ink ribbon pulled out by a drop of the thermal head is resolved, and the ink ribbon does not wind itself around the platen roller.

Abstract: A plurality of closed regions constituting a line drawing image are extracted and displayed on a display means. A desired closed region included among the plurality of displayed closed regions is extracted as an image layer by specifying the desired closed region by means of a manipulation means. At this time, a closed region display screen for displaying the extracted closed regions thereon and an image layer display screen for displaying the extracted image layer thereon are displayed in side by side relation on the display means. Thus, whether an appropriate closed region is converted to the image layer or not is easily determined. Also, when a plurality of closed regions are specified, the plurality of specified closed regions are extracted as an image layer. Thus, the plurality of closed regions are treated together as the single image layer.

Abstract: A connecting rod includes a rod main body, a small end located at one end of the rod main body and a big end located at another end of the rod main body, the big end including a curved section which is curved so as to become narrower toward the rod main body. The big end is formed of a metal material whose composition is different from that of the rod main body, and is bonded to the rod main body. A joint between the big end and the rod main body is located closer to the small end than is an end of the curved section facing the rod main body.

Abstract: A printer has a substantially linear transport path 21 in which a card C is transported, roller 41 provided on the transport path P1 to transport the card C, roller 42 spaced apart from the roller 41 on the transport path P1 to transport the card C to the opposite side to the roller 41, cleaning roller 31 that is disposed opposite to the roller 41 on the transport path P1 and that has an adhesive portion for cleaning the surface of the card C, and control section 95 for controlling the rotation velocity of the roller 31 to rotate the roller 31 at least at rotation velocity V1 and at rotation velocity V2 lower than the rotation velocity V1, where the control section 95 controls the rotation velocity of the roller 31 from the rotation velocity V1 to the rotation velocity V2 for a period during which the front end of the card C reaches the roller 41 from the cleaning roller 31.

Abstract: A connecting rod made of a titanium alloy is a split-type connecting rod which includes a rod main body, and a big end located at an end of the rod main body, the big end being fracture-split into a rod portion which continues from the end of the rod main body and a cap portion which is coupled to the rod portion. The rod portion and the cap portion each have a fractured surface on which rugged features are present. A difference in height between a highest portion and a lowest portion on each fractured surface is about 230 ?m or more.

Abstract: A method of measuring a diffusion length of a minority carrier in a silicon wafer by a surface photovoltage method including irradiating the surface-treated silicon wafer with ultraviolet radiation in an oxygen-containing atmosphere, and measuring a diffusion length of a minority carrier in a silicon wafer by a surface photovoltage method.

Abstract: Based on an input operation by an operator, a line drawing processor sets a designated region and sets identification points in the designated region to generate first and second identification data, each data representing a colored pixel cluster linked to each of the identification points. The line drawing processor further extracts at least one closed region that is not colored in the second identification data and makes a comparison in area between each closed region and the pixel cluster colored in the second identification data to determine whether the closed region requires coloring or not. For line drawing data, the line drawing processor then applies the same color to the pixel cluster identified in the second identification data and the closed region determined to require coloring.

Abstract: A connecting rod is a fracture split-type connecting rod made of an ?+? type titanium alloy, including a rod main body and a big end provided at an end of the rod main body, the big end being fracture-split. The structure of the rod main body is an equiaxed ? structure, and the structure of fractured surfaces of the big end is an acicular ? structure.

Abstract: The invention provides a vacuum insulation panel to which moisture and gas do not easily adsorb while it is being processed or being in storage in an unfinished state. The vacuum insulation panel includes a core provided with air circulation, a getter material which adsorbs moisture and gas from the core, an inner film bag which accommodates the core and the getter material, and an outer barrier bag which accommodates the inner film bag. The getter material is filled in an incision provided on the surface of the core. To prevent the getter material from getting out of the incision, the opening of the incision is narrowed by evacuating air from the interior of the inner film bag and, concurrently, compressing the inner film bag and the core.