Abstract: A system includes a multivariable mass flow rate transmitter having a mass flow rate computation section, and a flow rate setting tool which performs setup of the mass flow rate computation section, the flow rate setting tool including a parameter generation section, a condition input section, a model computation section, a first mass flow rate display section which displays an output value of the model computation section, a second mass flow rate display section which displays the computation result, and a diagnosing display screen which displays the first and second mass flow rate display sections on the same screen.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus for ejecting liquid to a printing material, having a platen for supporting the printing material, an ejection head for ejecting the liquid to the printing material by reciprocating on the printing material supported by the platen, an optical sensor reciprocating together with the ejection head and having a light emitting section for emitting light toward the printing material and the platen and a light receiving section for receiving light reflected from the printing material to optically detect whether or not the printing material exists, a usage measuring section for measuring usage of the liquid ejecting apparatus and a correcting section for correcting a result detected by the optical sensor based on the usage measured by the usage measuring section.

Abstract: An electromagnetic flowmeter includes: a measurement pipe to which a magnetic pole core is fixed while having a gap between a tip end portion of the magnetic pole core and the measurement pipe; a lining member for covering an inner wall surface of the measurement pipe and the gap; and a locking portion for locking the lining member, the locking portion being provided in a vicinity of the gap.

Abstract: An image forming device includes a development section which has a blade for applying electrons generated in its photoelectric surface due to a photoelectric effect to a toner so as to charge the toner; an ultraviolet irradiator for irradiating the photoelectric surface with light; a development roller for holding the toner thus charged, and performing carriage of the toner to a photoconductive drum having an electrostatic latent image on a surface; wherein the electrostatic latent image on the photoconductive drum is developed by the charged toner. The development section further includes a control section for performing control of application of a voltage to the ultraviolet irradiator, application of a voltage to the photoelectric surface, application of a voltage to the development roller, and beginning of the carriage of the toner by the development roller, at predetermined timings, respectively.

Abstract: Several embodiments of a stiff, metallic hub for an energy storage devices are disclosed in the present invention. The stiff hub produces a critical velocity that is significantly greater than the design operating speed of the flywheel assembly so that resonant frequency is never reached during normal operation of the energy storage device's flywheel assembly. The stiff hub comprises a central core section that maintains a tight interference fit with the rotating shaft; an outer rim section that maintains a tight interference with the high-strength, low-density composite fiber rim, in which energy primarily is stored; and a web section that is situated therebetween, extending radially from the rotary shaft. At high operating speeds, the outer rim of the hub expands radially commensurate with expansion of the composite fiber rim so that enough of the outer rim remains in tight interference fit with the composite fiber rim to substantially minimize vibrations.

Abstract: A time-varying image editing device is provided on a recording medium (101) and used for editing time-varying image data reproduced from a time-varying image file containing time-varying image data body (111) the items of which are arranged together with time management information in temporal order and outputted. The device includes a file-to-be-reproduced extracting section (12) for extracting a desired reproduction part of a time-varying image file. The desired part contains a predetermined reproduction time. The device further includes a file creating section (17) for storing edit information (112) for managing the extracted reproduction part and the reproduction time in an area other than the one where the time-varying image data body is stored on the recording medium (101).

Abstract: A network system includes a plurality of printers and a digital copying machine interconnected through a data transmission line, detects a free space in an image memory of each printer, adds a user identification code to image data of a document read in an image reading section of the digital copying machine, and then sends the image data to a printer with the image memory having a sufficient free space so as to store the image data. With this structure, even if the digital copying machine does not have an image memory, it is possible to store the image data subjected to an image formation within the network and omit an image reading process when performing an image formation according to the same image data later. Moreover, with this structure, various processing can be executed on the image data by effectively using the functions of the respective apparatuses.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a feeder, provided in an upstream in a transfer path for transferring a medium, for feeding the medium to a downstream in the transfer path one by one, the medium being stacked at an angle; a recording head, provided in the downstream of the feeder, for performing recording for the medium; a carriage, on which the recording head is mounted, for reciprocating in a main scanning direction along a carriage guide axis; a transfer roller for transferring the medium by rotating, the transfer roller including a transfer-driving roller and a transfer-driven roller; a stacker having a medium-placed surface, the stacker being positioned at a first position allowing the medium to be substantially horizontally fed from the medium-placed surface to a position under the recording head and be substantially horizontally discharged from the position under the recording head onto the medium-placed surface, or a second position for receiving and stacking the medium fed by the feeder, the second p

Abstract: An aberration detecting method of the present invention is arranged such that a light beam, having passed through an optical convergence system provided in an optical pickup device, illuminates a flat section of an optical disk, and using the light beam which has been reflected, and the aberration occurring in the two-element objective lens is detected.

Abstract: An image processing device for generating a 3-D character image of the present invention includes: an image input section for inputting a face image; a storage section for prestoring of 3-D models, body images, and information on a direction, position, and size of a face conforming to the body images; a user input section having a position designation means and a body selection means; an image processing section, including a textured image generation means for generating a textured image so as to paste the input image onto the 3-D model, a textured image storage means, a face image generation means, and a combining means for combining a body image and an image generated by the face image generation section so as to generate a 3-D character image; and a display section.

Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention discloses a dual-stiffness damping system for an evacuated energy storage system, the damping system comprising one or more flexible dampers and a plurality of more rigid bumpers, and a method of damping an evacuated energy storage system using dual-stiffness damping. Indeed, under normal operating conditions, a flexible damper, having a stiffness of about 500 lb/in to about 4000 lb/in, minimizes the rigid body critical speed of the rotor assembly of the energy storage system, allowing relative displacement between the stator assembly and rotor assembly but preventing the assemblies from physically contacting each other. Under more extreme external loading conditions, e.g., during an earthquake, the plurality of more rigid bumpers, having a stiffness of about 50,000 to 250,000 lb/in, engages the outer race of the bearing assembly to arrest further relative displacement substantially.

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes a paper gap switching portion for switching paper gaps by moving a recording head, a pressing-force adjustment portion for applying a pressure to a following roller and releasing the pressure from the following roller so as to adjust a pressing force applied to a recording medium, and an operation member for controlling a driving operation of the paper gap switching portion and a driving operation for the pressing-force adjustment portion.

Abstract: A data processing device enabling stable data processing reads digital data including object data, an identifier indicating a type of the object data, and an attached program associated with at least one identifier for performing a predetermined process for object data associated with the identifier, to process the object data. The data processing device includes a program storing unit for recording an internal program including a processing module associated with the at least one identifier, an input unit for reading the digital data, and an external program executing unit for processing the object data by one of the attached program and the processing module when the attached program associated with the identifier of the read object data is present in the digital data.

Abstract: A magneto-optical recording medium is provided with at least: a recording layer, made of a perpendicular magnetization film, in which magnetized information is recorded in the form of a perpendicular direction of magnetization; a magnetic flux generating layer, made of a perpendicular magnetization film, which is exchange-coupled with the recording layer; and a read-out layer, having a perpendicular magnetization at a predetermined temperature or higher temperatures than the predetermined temperature, which copies the magnetized information of the recording layer by magneto-static coupling with the magnetic flux generating layer and the recording layer, wherein the magnetic flux generating layer is a magnetic film having a lower Curie temperature than that of the recording layer and having a larger total magnetization than that of the recording layer at a temperature at which the read-out layer has a perpendicular magnetization.

Abstract: This invention discloses a packaged integrated circuit including an integrated circuit substrate lying in a substrate plane and having electrical circuitry formed thereon, a package enclosing the integrated circuit substrate and defining first and second planar surfaces generally parallel to the substrate plane and a plurality of electrical contacts, each connected to the electrical circuitry at the substrate plane, at least some of the plurality of electrical contacts extending onto the first planar surface and at least some of the plurality of electrical contacts extending onto the second planar surface. A method for producing packaged integrated circuits is also disclosed.

Abstract: Four original size and paper size combinations are displayed together with arrow indicators on a display panel, in order of use frequency. Each size is displayed by text and pattern and enlargement or reduction with the necessity of rotation also indicated. By operating scroll keys, the display of the arrows in the arrow indicators moves from one to another while the display of four possible original size and paper size combinations among all the possible combinations is shown in a scrolling manner. The operator operates the scroll keys to scroll the four combinations displayed within the display panel and selects the arrow indicator indicating the arrow that corresponds to the desired combination to be set up for the copying operation.

Abstract: A precharge circuit is composed of (a) a reference signal input section, to which at least one precharge reference potential is inputted, (b) a control signal input section, to which at least one control signal is inputted, (c) a plurality of signal delay sections for sequentially delaying an output of the control signal input section, and (d) a reference signal switching section for switching, in accordance with outputs of the signal delay sections, between a state of outputting the precharge reference potential of the reference signal input section to each of the data signal lines and a state of non-outputting the same thereto. With this arrangement, the precharge control signal is sequentially delayed within the precharge circuit by the delay circuits composed of inverter circuits or the like, so that timings at which the precharge reference potential is written in the data signal lines are dispersed.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developing roller and a toner charging roller. The toner charging roller has (a) a metallic layer which induces its electrons by receiving light irradiation, and (b) an ultraviolet irradiater which irradiates ultraviolet to the metallic layer. The toner charging roller gives the electrons to toner, so that the toner on the developing roller is charged. There is a space between the toner charging roller and the developing roller, and a grid electrode which controls a flow of the electrons is provided in the space. Thus, mechanical/thermal load given to the toner or the toner charging roller can be reduced, so that it is possible to prevent deterioration of toner and the device.