Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing; a mounting portion in the housing configured to hold a recording medium; one or more light receivers in the housing; a light adjuster that adjusts an amount of light incident on the light receivers based on presence or size of the recording medium on the mounting portion; and a controller that determines a size of the recording medium based on the amount of light that has been adjusted by the light adjuster.

Abstract: A printer includes a sheet stopper that rotates between a regulating position where a sheet placed in the feeding tray is regulated and a passing position where the sheet placed in a feeding tray is passed through, and an inversion path introduction unit that rotates between a forward-feeding position and a reverse-feeding position of introducing the sheet. The inversion path introduction unit is disposed at the forward-feeding position when a sheet is conveyed in a sheet feeding direction. The inversion path introduction unit is disposed at the reverse-feeding position when a sheet is conveyed in a direction opposite to the sheet feeding direction and the inversion path introduction unit introduces the sheet into an inversion path. The sheet stopper changes the regulating position and the passing position in conjunction with rotation of the inversion path introduction unit.

Abstract: This paper guiding mechanism (110) includes a base member (1) including a placing surface (11) for placing papers (200) thereon and a base-side lock portion (12) and a paper guide member (2), while the paper guide member includes a paper aligning portion (21) coming into contact with the papers, a guide-side lock portion (22) locked to the base-side lock portion, and a lever portion (23) canceling a locked state of the guide-side lock portion with respect to the base-side lock portion and maintaining an unlocked state when the paper aligning portion is slidingly moved.

Abstract: This paper feeding apparatus (100) includes a pickup roller (21) including a first portion (21a) that picks up paper (150) in a first state where the paper is to be picked up and a second portion (21b) that transports, in a second state where the paper is to be transported, the paper picked up in the first state and a friction pad (22) that suppresses transport of paper subsequent to the picked up paper, and the pickup roller is in surface contact such that a contact area between the first portion and the friction pad and a contact area between the second portion and the friction pad are substantially equal to each other.

Abstract: This paper guiding mechanism (110) includes a base member (1) including a placing surface (11) for placing papers (200) thereon and a base-side lock portion (12) and a paper guide member (2), while the paper guide member includes a paper aligning portion (21) coming into contact with the papers, a guide-side lock portion (22) locked to the base-side lock portion, and a lever portion (23) canceling a locked state of the guide-side lock portion with respect to the base-side lock portion and maintaining an unlocked state when the paper aligning portion is slidingly moved.

Abstract: A printer which reduces feeding failure that occurs when a roller is pressed against a sheet of paper by power of a driving source includes: a rotating member which rotates around a first axis; a connecting member which connects with the rotating member; a roller which is disposed in the connecting member and rotates around a second axis to transfer a medium; and a support member disposed across from the roller, wherein the roller applies a force to the medium based on rotation of the rotating member, and the medium is transferred between the roller and the support member.

Abstract: A compressor includes a cylindrical casing, a bundle 3 which includes a tubular stationary member and a rotor accommodated into the stationary member, and is inserted into an inner portion of the casing, and a roller 11 configured to roll on an inner circumferential surface of the casing while supporting the bundle 3 when the bundle 3 is inserted into the inner portion of the casing along an axial direction. An outer circumferential surface 23 of the roller 11 is formed in a continuous convex curved surface so that a curvature radius of an end side along a rotating shaft 21 of the roller 11 is smaller than a curvature radius of a center.

Abstract: The present invention provides an agent for preventing or treating a trastuzumab-resistant cancer, which contains one or more medicaments selected from a cofilin inhibitor, a PAK1 inhibitor, a LIMK inhibitor, a RHO inhibitor, a ROCK1 inhibitor and a ROCK2 inhibitor.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication apparatus for receiving a code-spread transmission signal. The wireless communication apparatus includes: an RF section; and a baseband section, wherein, in the baseband section, despreaders of an integral submultiple, which is 1/n1, of the number of chips of a spread code are arranged in parallel, and there is provided a propagation measurement section that measures a propagation channel by using the plurality of despreaders a plurality of times in a time-division manner and performing despread of each period corresponding to a chip rate of the spread code.

Abstract: An automatic tool exchange apparatus is provided, which dispenses with a robot hand for grasping and moving a tool, and a mechanism for mechanical movement of a tool, such as a tool conveyance device for conveyance of a tool, and which is simple in construction and enables to surely and automatically exchange a tool in a short time. An automatic tool exchange apparatus comprising a tool exchange unit and a main spindle part, wherein the tool exchange unit comprises a tool magazine, which rotates about a rotating shaft and includes a plurality of tool storage parts, means, which moves the tool magazine toward the rotating shaft, and an air supply source, which supplies an air flow to move a tool to the main spindle part, and the main spindle part comprises a motor, which rotates the tool, a tool clamp, which holds the tool, and an air supply source, which supplies an air flow to move the tool to the tool exchange unit.

Abstract: An immunotherapy useful for treating a cancer and/or treating and preventing a microbial infection is provided. A pharmaceutical composition which comprises a bacterial component as an effective ingredient is disclosed, which is used for immunotherapy in a patient suffering from a cancer or microbial infection, wherein the immunotherapy comprises eradicating the cancer cells or the microorganisms from the lymph nodes of the patient.

Abstract: A picture frame includes a base, a frame surrounding the base, a plurality of stands that are provided on the base and a plurality of panels that fit on the stands. The panels are provided in more than one dimensions that fit different number of stands. Various combinations including square(s), horizontal or vertical rectangle(s) are possible. The panel has a flat panel plate and a panel side wall that extends from the panel plate. The stand has a rectangular stand side wall that extends from the base, and an opening that is surrounded by the stand side wall. The panel and the stand are rectangular. The panel side wall includes a panel groove, and the stand side wall includes a stand projection that elastically engages with the panel groove so that the panels are assembled with the stands.

Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a treated pigment usable in fields where the pigment is required to give high transparency and a high contrast ratio in the case where an organic pigment is used as the pigment by treating primary particles of the pigment and making the particles finer and more uniform and dispersing the particles. The present invention provides a treated pigment obtained by grinding down a pigment by friction with an inorganic salt using a kneading apparatus having three agitation blades respectively made movable in an autorotation manner and simultaneously in a revolution manner.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pigment dispersion composition which has good fluidity and dispersion stability even in the case of having a high pigment concentration and exhibits excellent development characteristics when it is used for the areas requiring development characteristics such as a resist composition for a color filter or a resist composition for a black matrix. The pigment dispersion composition of the present invention is a pigment dispersion composition formed by dispersing a pigment in a dispersion medium, wherein the surface of said pigment is coated with an acid radical-containing reactant produced by the reaction of a carbodiimide compound having at least one carbodiimide group with an acid radical-containing resin having an acid value of 20 to 300 mgKOH/g and a weight average molecular weight of 1000 to 100000.

Abstract: A method and system for presenting a virtual meeting in a user's preferred language is provided. A meeting organizer sends an invitation in a particular language to join an online meeting to each potential meeting participant. When the scheduled time for the online meeting arrives, the meeting participant uses the invitation to connect to the online meeting. When each meeting participant connects to the meeting, the meeting system determines the user interface language that the participant will see once connected to the meeting and invokes the meeting client application in the determined language.

Abstract: Based on information that is transmitted to a UPS communication part by UPSs connected to an information processing apparatus, a UPS monitoring part monitors the states of the UPSs. A UPS control part employs the monitoring results to generate control information for controlling the state of at least one of the UPSs, and permits the UPS communication part to transmit the control information to the UPS that is to be controlled. The present invention can be applied for a computer having a redundant power supply function.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a slider 30 movable back and forth with respect to a fixed base 4 disposed near a home position of an ink cartridge 10; a cap 20 which is attached to the upper part of the slider 30, formed of an elastic member that is opened on its upper end portion 21 so as to cover the head surface 11 of the ink cartridge 10, narrowed at the middle portion 22, and widened toward the lower end portion 23; and a cam mechanism 5 which changes the pressure inside the cap 20 from a positively pressurized status into a negatively pressurized status when the ink cartridge 10 moves within the home position, and at a standby state, maintains the negatively pressurized status so that the cap 20 adsorbs to the head surface 11.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a movable core having a valve shaft, of a solenoid valve with which the movable core and the valve shaft can be easily and accurately aligned with each other. The valve shaft and the movable core are manufactured by sintering as follows. First, with a lower punch inserted in a cavity of a first mold, SUS powder having an average particle diameter of 150 micrometer is put in the cavity. The powder is compacted into a powder compact in the shape of a valve shaft by lowering an upper punch into the cavity. The first mold is slightly lowered so that the powder compact slightly protrudes from the cavity. Fe powder having an average particle diameter of 150 micrometers is put in a cavity of a second mold so as to be deposited on the powder compact in the cavity of the first mold. The upper punch is lowered to compact the powder in the second mold into a powder compact in the shape of the core. After releasing the powder compacts, they are joined together by sintering.

Abstract: An immunotherapy useful for treating a cancer and/or treating and preventing a microbial infection is provided. A pharmaceutical composition which comprises a bacterial component as an effective ingredient is disclosed, which is used for immunotherapy in a patient suffering from a cancer or microbial infection, wherein the immunotherapy comprises eradicating the cancer cells or the microorganisms from the lymph nodes of the patient.