Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus according to the present invention are equipped with discharge rollers for discharging a sheet, a fixed stacking portion for supporting one corner of the sheet discharged by the discharge rollers, a storage tray disposed below the fixed stacking portion with an area larger than the fixed stacking portion, and a stapler for binding the sheet while the sheet straddles the fixed stacking portion and the storage tray. It is possible to configure a more compact size in the sheet transport direction. Further, it is possible to stabilize the sheet bundle when post-processing the sheet bundle straddling the sheet single corner portion support tray and the sheet storage tray, thereby enabling the accurate post-processing.

Abstract: A screen printing machine including a stencil sheet assembly having a frame member having outer peripheral sides for partitioning an outer configuration and inner peripheral sides for partitioning an opening and stencil sheet adhered to one face of the frame member to cover the opening, a tension frame projected to inner sides of the inner peripheral sides of the frame member, having a raised portion toward the stencil sheet and arranged on other face of the frame member for applying tension to the stencil sheet, and holding means for holding the tension frame and the stencil sheet assembly which are put together such that a front face of the tension frame in a direction of raising the raised portion and the outer face of the frame member are brought into contact with each other.

Abstract: A vehicle occupant protection device has an airbag, a gas generator for inflating the airbag and a door that opens when a airbag is inflated. The door is provided with a pair of sidewall portions on a backside of the door. Each sidewall portion has a stopper for limiting an opening angle of the door during the inflation of the airbag. When the airbag is inflated and the door opens, the stopper abuts against a backside of a cover, thereby keeping the door from further opening. Also, upon the inflation of the air bag, the sidewall portions are brought and project to a front side of the cover together with the door, thereby limiting the inflation of the airbag in a lateral direction.

Abstract: A sheet finishing apparatus includes a discharge device having a pair of rotating shafts and discharge rotating bodies supported on the rotating shafts; a shift device for shifting the rotating shafts in a shaft direction; a support device for receiving and supporting the sheet discharged by the discharge means; an alignment device having an alignment reference member for aligning one edge of the sheet discharged on the support means and a moving member for moving the sheet to the alignment reference member along the shaft direction; a finishing device disposed at a side facing the support device with the alignment reference member in between for finishing the sheet aligned by the aligning device; and a shift tolerance portion disposed at a side facing the support device with the aligning device in between for allowing the rotating shafts to protrude when the shift device shifts the rotating shafts.

Abstract: A grip main portion of an assist grip is attached to a car body through an attaching device. A hook member is housed in a housing of the attaching device to be located outside the housing. An end surface of the hook member is aligned with an outer surface of the attaching device in a state wherein the hook member is housed in the housing. The housing and the hook member are provided with a cam mechanism. Through the cam mechanism, the hook member can be moved between a using position and a non-using position. Thus, the assist grip having a good appearance and operability can be obtained.

Abstract: A method of refining a crystal of a crude cyclic ester comprises the steps of supplying the crude cyclic ester to a vertically extending cylindrical refiner (1) from an inlet (3) provided at a lower part of the refiner (1), agitating the crude cyclic ester by an agitator provided in the refiner (1) to make the crude cyclic ester flow upwardly, refining the crystals of the crude cyclic ester by counterflow-contact between the upflowing crude cyclic ester and a downflowing melted liquid containing a refined crystal component, and taking out refined crystals of the crude cyclic ester from an outlet (4) provided at an upper part of the refiner (1).

Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a head portion for driving a staple into a sheet bundle; an anvil portion opposingly arranged to the head portion for receiving and bending the staple driven from the head portion; a feeding device for feeding the sheet bundle between the head portion and the anvil portion; a guide member positioned between the head portion and the anvil portion for guiding the sheet bundle; and an auxiliary guide member disposed on an upstream side of the guide member in a sheet bundle feed direction of the sheet bundle fed by the feeding device. The auxiliary guide member leads the sheet bundle to the guide member without touching a leading edge of the sheet bundle fed by the feeding device on an upstream edge of the guide member in a sheet bundle feed direction.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing linked food products having twisted portions includes a stuffing nozzle for discharging from its distal end a food product material supplied from its material inlet port, a hollow spindle for rotating the stuffing nozzle, a braking member for engaging the casing on the stuffing nozzle; a main body housing having a front plate provided uprightly in such a manner as to extend in the same direction as a direction in which the stuffing nozzle extends from the material inlet port toward the distal end, and a side plate extending perpendicularly to the front plate, a spindle housing attached to the front plate, and a braking-member supporting member disposed at a position opposing the side plate.

Abstract: A communication system for automatic synthesis apparatus is formed of an automatic synthesis apparatus and a computer connected to the automatic synthesis apparatus. The automatic synthesis apparatus has a reaction block to produce synthetic compounds along synthesis procedures, and an operation notification creation device for creating operation notification mails according to operating conditions in the synthesis procedures. The computer includes a per-operation transmission setting device for setting to the automatic synthesis apparatus as to whether transmissions of the operation notification mails along the synthesis procedures to the computer are performed or not, and an operation notification mail display device for displaying the operation notification mail. The operating conditions can be monitored by the operation notification mail display device as desired.

Abstract: A composite carbonaceous heat insulator which comprises a carbonaceous heat-insulating member having a bulk density of 0.1 to 0.4 g/cm3, a carbonaceous protecting layer having a bulk density of 0.3 to 2.0 g/cm3 and comprising a carbon fiber structure and a thermally decomposed carbon penetrated into the structure, and a thermally decomposed carbon coating layer having a bulk density higher than that of the carbonaceous protecting layer, wherein the above carbonaceous protecting layer is jointed to at least a part of the carbonaceous heat-insulating member to form a jointed body, and the thermally decomposed carbon coating layer is formed at least on the face of carbonaceous heat-insulating member in the surface of the jointed body; and a method for manufacturing the insulator. The heat insulator is reduced with respect to the depletion, deterioration and pulverization during the use thereof, while maintaining excellent insulating characteristics.

Abstract: A container holder includes a case and a tray. The tray is provided with an opening portion for allowing a container to be inserted therein, and a holder member for holding the container. The holder member is supported in the opening portion. The holder member is raised and fallen down by a stand-up-fall-down device, while a portion of the holding member facing an opening of the case slides relative to the opening.

Abstract: A leg protection device for protecting legs of a vehicle occupant from colliding against a vehicle member in front of the vehicle occupant includes an airbag installed inside the vehicle member and a gas generator for generating gas to inflate the airbag. The airbag has a first chamber having a first gas inlet and a second chamber having a second gas inlet. The airbag expands along the vehicle member when the airbag is inflated. The first chamber and the second chamber are connected so that the gas generated from the gas generator at first passes through the first chamber, then flows into the second chamber.

Abstract: A stencil printing machine includes an image reading section, an image processing section for processing to convert image data into perforating data which is used for perforating a stencil sheet, an image perforating section for perforating the stencil sheet in accordance with the perforating data, a printing section for applying ink to a print sheet by using the perforated stencil sheet, and a data holding section for holding perforating data in stencil making operation as re-perforating data. When the number of print sheets comes to a predetermined number, the re-perforating data held in the data holding section is used to re-perforate another stencil sheet to exchange with the previous stencil sheet. The printing is again performed.

Abstract: A sheet carrier apparatus for conveying a sheet includes a roller having a cylindrical circumferential surface that is made of an elastic material. The apparatus also includes a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of the roller, and processing device for setting a rotational speed of the roller based on a detection signal from the temperature sensor.

Abstract: To improve the capability to withstand noises and surges in a semiconductor integrated circuit in which an RC filter for cutting electromagnetic wave noises is integrated with analog circuits and digital circuits, a positive electrode of a capacitor constituting the RC filter is disposed apart from circuit elements or connection lines constituting the circuits at such an interval as to prevent malfunction of the circuit elements resulting from a noise superimposed on the positive electrode, or dielectric breakdown of the capacitor constituting the RC filter and latch-up and dielectric breakdown of the circuit elements resulting from a surge applied to the positive electrode. The interval is larger than the minimum interval required by a layout rule or five times longer than the minimum.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holder for holding a substrate with a holding angle of 45 degrees to 90 degrees with respect to a horizontal plane, a conveying system to convey the substrate with the substrate holder, a process chamber in which the substrate is processed, a load-lock chamber in which the substrate temporarily stays, and an intermediate chamber provided between the process chamber and the load-lock chamber. The conveying system conveys the substrate along the first direction from the load-lock chamber to the intermediate chamber, and from the intermediate chamber to the process chamber, and also conveys the substrate along the second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: In an atomic absorption photometer, depending on a fact whether a background correction is carried out or not, a pattern of a pulse lighting of light sources and a timing of sampling a light receiving signal are changed. Namely, at the time of a background correction measurement, one cycle is divided into three periods, that is, a period of lighting HCL, a period of lighting D2L, and an off period, and at the time of a measurement without a background correction, one cycle is divided into the period of lighting HCL and the off period. Accordingly, at the time of the measurement without the background correction, the period of lighting HCL and the off period become longer, and signal-to-noise ratio of the light receiving signal is improved. Accordingly, an absorbance with high accuracy can be calculated.

Abstract: A cylinder head gasket is formed of a single metal base plate for sealing between a cylinder head and a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine. The cylinder head gasket has a primary sealing portion including a grommet or shim around a cylinder bore, and a secondary sealing portion outside the primary sealing portion. The secondary sealing portion is formed of a bead and a foamed coating layer coated on one side or both sides of the bead to cover at least a portion of the bead in a belt shape.

Abstract: The porous composite oxide particle is coated with a porous silica-based inorganic oxide layer, and also a substrate has a coating film with the fine particles thereon, which has a low refractive index and excellent in adhesion with a resin or the like, strength, the ability to reduce reflection and the like. The fine particles include porous composite oxide with silica and an inorganic oxide other than silica, wherein the fine particles are coated with a porous silica-based inorganic oxide layer having a thickness from 0.5 to 20 nm. The fine particles include preferably an organic group directly bonded to silicon, and SR/ST, the ratio of the molar amount of silicon having the organic group directly bonded thereto (SR) vs the molar amount of the total silicon (ST), is preferably in the range from 0.001 to 0.9.