Abstract: There is a flare stack diffuser tip for use with a flare stack having a waste gas conduit. The flare stack diffuser tip has one or more concentric diffuser rings. One or more radial transfer spokes connect to the waste gas conduit of the flare stack to receive waste gas. The one or more radial transfer spokes is in fluid connection with the one or more concentric diffuser rings.

Abstract: A fixing device includes: a rotating member to be heated; a pressure rotating member; a housing; a sheet entrance port; a shutter member; and a biasing member. The shutter member slides between a first position for opening the sheet entrance port provided in the housing and a second position for closing the sheet entrance port. The biasing member biases the shutter member in a direction toward the second position. The shutter member includes a hook portion in which an engagement claw is formed, and when the shutter member is arranged in the second position, the engagement claw is opposite a portion to be engaged in the housing. When an external force directed toward the inside of the housing is applied to the shutter member arranged in the second position, the engagement claw engages the portion to be engaged to restrict the movement of the shutter member to the first position.

Abstract: An electrode sheet manufacturing device includes a pair of rolls that press an electrode active material layer formed on an electrode sheet, a press pressure adjusting mechanism that adjusts a press pressure of the pair of rolls, a temperature sensor that detects a surface temperature of at least one of the pair of rolls, and a controller. The controller is configured to adjust the press pressure, based on the surface temperature of the at least one of the pair of rolls detected by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a media playing device. A media playing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a body, a speaker, and a controller. The controller is configured to, in response to a user staying at a specific position relative to the body, control the speaker to face the user's head and to play sounds. The present disclosure further relates to a self-service terminal.

Abstract: The casing houses the scanning optical system, and includes a holding portion holding an optical element configuring the scanning optical system. The pressing holding member presses and holds the optical element to the holding portion. The pressing holding member includes a body portion and a pressing portion. The pressing portion is coupled to the body portion, and presses the optical element held by the holding portion, against the holding portion. The casing includes a support portion provided to face the holding portion and supporting the body portion. The support portion is disposed on a peripheral edge of a through hole penetrating through the casing, and includes a support protrusion. The support protrusion protrudes from an outer surface to come into contact with a peripheral edge of the body portion. The through hole is an emission port emitting the laser beam to outside of the casing.

Abstract: In this secondary battery, a first resin member is disposed between a negative electrode terminal and a first sealing plate, the negative electrode terminal and a negative electrode current collector are connected to each other by a welding portion, the welding portion extends through the negative electrode terminal, and the welding portion is provided in the negative electrode terminal on an outer side with respect to the negative electrode current collector. With this configuration, the negative electrode terminal and a negative electrode tab group can be electrically joined to each other with an electrode assembly being disposed in a case main body. As a result, a secondary battery having a higher volume energy density can be manufactured efficiently.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a head unit, a wipe unit, and a control part. The head unit is provided with a nozzle surface on which a plurality of ink ejection ports is opened downward. The wipe unit performs a wiping operation in which a blade is moved along the nozzle surface while applying a cleaning liquid to the nozzle surface to wipe the nozzle surface. The control part controls the head unit and the wipe unit to perform a first maintenance operation to perform the wiping operation and a second maintenance operation to perform the wiping operation after the ink is pushed out from the nozzle surface. In the second maintenance operation, the cleaning liquid applied to the nozzle surface is suppled firstly, then the ink is pushed out from the nozzle surface, and then wiping operation is performed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus (100) includes: an intermediate transfer belt (15B) provided in a body housing (3); an opening/closing unit (30); a second transfer roller (152) provided in the opening/closing unit (30) and in contact with the intermediate transfer belt (15B) when the opening/closing unit (30) is closed; a guide member (31) provided in the opening/closing unit (30) turnably and guiding a sheet to a contact area between the intermediate transfer belt (15B) and the second transfer roller (152); a conductive sheet (32) covering the guide member (31); and a conductive spring (33) provided in the opening/closing unit (30) and biasing the guide member (31) toward the intermediate transfer belt (15B) via the conductive sheet (32) to press the guide member (31) to the body housing (3), wherein when the opening/closing unit (30) is opened, the guide member (31) is in contact with the conductive spring (32) by gravity.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a secondary battery includes: inserting an electrode assembly into a case main body from the second end portion side of the electrode assembly through a first opening after electrically connecting a first electrode terminal and a first electrode tab to each other; electrically connecting a second electrode terminal and a second electrode tab to each other after inserting the electrode assembly into the case main body, a second electrode terminal being provided on a second sealing plate; sealing the first opening with a first sealing plate after inserting the electrode assembly into the case main body; and sealing a second opening with the second sealing plate after electrically connecting the second electrode terminal and the second electrode tab to each other.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording apparatus includes: a conveyor belt; a recording head including a pressurizing chamber that is configured to store ink, a nozzle that is configured to communicate with the pressurizing chamber, a displacement device that is configured to apply pressure to the pressurizing chamber by being deformed by application of voltage, and a driver circuit that is configured to switch the application of the voltage to the displacement device ON/OFF in response to a pulse drive signal input to the driver circuit; and a control unit. In a meniscus-shaking process before a flushing process, the control unit sets a pulse duration of the pulse drive signal to be smaller than a time constant of a circuit unit that includes the driver circuit and the displacement device.

Abstract: An ink set includes an inkjet ink and a recording head filling liquid. The inkjet ink contains a pigment, a pigment coating resin, an aqueous medium, a nonionic polymeric surfactant, and a specific glycol ether. The specific glycol ether is triethylene glycol monobutyl ether or diethylene glycol monobutyl ether. The nonionic polymeric surfactant has a mass average molecular weight of at least 6500 and no greater than 10,500. The recording head filling liquid contains a specific moisturizing agent and water. The specific moisturizing agent is a compound represented by general formula (1).

Abstract: A recording head filling liquid contains a specific moisturizing agent, a monovalent alkali, and water. The specific moisturizing agent is a compound represented by general formula (1) below. The specific moisturizing agent has a percentage content of at least 19.00% by mass and no greater than 42.00% by mass. The recording head filling liquid has a static surface tension at 25° C. of at least 20.0 mN/m and no greater than 29.0 mN/m. In general formula (1), a, b, and c each represent, independently of one another, an integer of at least 1 and a+b+c is at least 4 and no greater than 20.

Abstract: A drying apparatus includes a conveying device, a heating device, a conveying rollers pair, a driving roller rotation detection part, a driven roller rotation detection part, and a control part. The conveying device conveys a medium in a conveyance direction. The heating device dries the ink of the medium under a high temperature environment. The conveying rollers pair is disposed on a downstream side of the heating device, and includes a driving roller and a driven roller. The driving roller rotation detection part detects a rotating of the driving roller. The driven roller rotation detection part detects a rotating of the driven roller. The control part stops the heating device when the rotating of the driving roller is detected by the driving roller rotation detection part and a rotation period obtained by a detection result of the driven roller rotation detection part is longer than a reference rotation period.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a conveying unit, a recording head, a head housing, and a guide rail. The recording head includes an ink ejection surface provided with a plurality of nozzles which ejects ink toward the recording medium conveyed by the conveying unit. The head housing holds the recording head. The guide rail supports the head housing so that the head housing can reciprocate with respect to the conveying belt. The ink ejection surface is parallel to a conveying surface of the conveying belt. Moreover, the ink ejection surface is inclined with respect to a horizontal direction in a cross section orthogonal to an axial direction of the conveying roller. By moving the head housing along the guide rail extending in the horizontal direction, the ink ejection surface reciprocates between a printing position close to a conveying surface and a maintenance position retracted from the conveying surface.

Abstract: An ink supply unit includes an ink supply path and at least one element component. The ink supply path includes a first ink flow hole, a first valve member, and a first biasing member. The element component includes a second ink flow hole, a second valve member, and a second biasing member. When the element component is attached to the ink supply path, the first valve member and the second valve member respectively separate from the first ink flow hole and the second ink flow hole against biasing forces of the first biasing member and the second biasing member. When the element component is detached from the ink supply path, the first valve member and the second valve member are respectively caused by the biasing forces of the first biasing member and the second biasing member to close the first ink flow hole and the second ink flow hole.

Abstract: Techniques for providing multi-user multi-touch projected capacitive touch sensors are disclosed herein. Some embodiments may include a method that includes receiving a first sense signal from a first sensing array, the first sensing array configured to provide the first sense signal indicating a first touch on a first touch surface of a touch substrate as well as receiving a second sense signal from a second sensing array, the second sensing array configured to provide the second sense signal indicating a second touch on a second touch surface of a second touch substrate occurring concurrently to the first touch. The method may further include determining whether the first touch and the second touch share at least one anti-ghost. The method may also include associating the first touch and the second touch with a common touch entity in response to determining that the first touch and the second touch share the at least one anti-ghost.

Abstract: A device may capture, using a camera associated with a microscope, a first image of interstitial material associated with a first set of optical fibers in a field of view of the camera. The device may perform a comparison of the first image of interstitial material and a second image of interstitial material associated with a second set of optical fibers. The device may determine that the first set of optical fibers does not include an expected set of optical fibers based on a result of performing the comparison. The device may determine an amount by which to adjust the field of view of the camera based on the result of performing the comparison. The device may perform one or more actions.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for validating data, such as data related to testing or sampling a batch of a product, with a data compliance tracking system. An exemplary method includes receiving at least one data point from a computing element, wherein the data point corresponds to data collected from a sampling of at least one parameter during a batch run of a product and includes time stamp data; determining limit information corresponding to the at least one parameter, wherein the limit information includes at least one limit associated with at the least one parameter and has an associated valid value range; storing the at least one data point and the limit information; receiving an analytics request from a user device; analyzing the stored limit information to apply a limit to a select data point; and displaying an analytics output.

Abstract: A switching circuit comprises a first filter, a second filter and a plurality of switches. The first filter is configured to filter a first frequency band, a second frequency band that is adjacent to the first frequency band and a gap band between the first frequency band and the second frequency band. The second filter is configured to filter the second frequency band. The plurality of switches is configured to route signals from an antenna through one of the first filter and second filter.