Abstract: A cryogenic device with a cartridge holder for a cryogen cartridge, cryogen cartridge is coupleable to a cryogen pathway; a probe receptacle for receiving a needle probe, wherein the probe receptacle is configured to couple the needle probe to the cryogen cartridge via the cryogen pathway, and wherein the needle probe comprises: one or more needles having needle lumens disposed therein; a probe extension extending proximally, the probe extension having a probe lumen disposed therein, the probe lumen including an elongate element that extends from a proximal end to a distal end, wherein the probe lumen is coupled to the needle lumens at the distal end, and the cryogen pathway at a first location in between the proximal end and the distal end. Various connection mechanisms for securing needle probes to a handpiece portion are disclosed.

Abstract: A technique capable of certainly suppressing adhesion of waste ink to hands, clothes, and the like during replacement of a waste ink tank is provided. There are included a container portion provided with an insertion port which a discharge member discharging waste ink can be inserted into and pulled out from and a shielding portion movable between a shielding position where the insertion port is shielded and an open position where the insertion port is opened.

Abstract: An inkjet ink contains a pigment, a polysaccharide, a water-soluble organic solvent, and self-emulsifying polyolefin resin particles. The polysaccharide has a percentage content of at least 0.01% by mass and no greater than 0.20% by mass. The water-soluble organic solvent contains a specific glycol ether compound. The specific glycol ether compound has a percentage content of at least 3.0% by mass and no greater than 24.0% by mass. A ratio (MY/MX) of a mass MY of the pigment to a mass MX of the self-emulsifying polyolefin resin particles is at least 0.24 and no greater than 3.10.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a heater and a recording head. The heater is disposed upstream of the recording head in terms of a conveyance direction of a recording medium. The recording medium heated by the heater has a temperature of from 40 to 80° C. The ink contains a pigment, a cellulose derivative, first and second water-soluble organic solvents, and water. The first water-soluble organic solvent is glycol ether. The second water-soluble organic solvent is a water-soluble organic solvent that is not glycol ether. The cellulose derivative has a percentage content of from 0.01 to 0.20% by mass relative to the mass of the ink. The percentage content of the glycol ether is from 6 to 24% by mass relative to the mass of the ink and from 20 to 80% by mass relative to the total mass of the first water-soluble organic solvent and the second water-soluble organic solvent.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus has a recording head, a thermal head, and a heat control portion. The recording head has an ink discharge surface. The thermal head is arranged opposite the ink discharge surface across a recording medium conveyance passage, and heats the recording medium. The thermal head is provided with a plurality of element arrays in the width direction, the element arrays each having a plurality of heating elements arrayed in the recording medium conveyance direction. The heat control portion makes generate heat at least some heating elements in the element arrays corresponding to the ink discharge ports through which ink is discharged.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus has a recording head, a thermal head, and a heat control portion. The recording head has an ink discharge surface. The thermal head is arranged opposite the ink discharge surface across a recording medium conveying passage and heats a recording medium. In the thermal head, a plurality of element arrays each formed of a plurality of heating elements arrayed in the recording medium conveying direction are provided in the width direction. The heat control portion makes at least part of the heating elements in the element arrays that correspond to the ink discharge ports that discharge ink generate heat.

Abstract: Toner particles each include a toner mother particle and an external additive. The toner mother particle includes a toner core containing a binder resin and a shell layer covering a surface of the toner core. The external additive includes a plurality of external addition resin particles. The external addition resin particles are each present on a surface of the shell layer. The shell layer contains a specific vinyl resin. The toner core and each resin particle are bonded together through a covalent bond within the shell layer. A detachment rate of the resin particles is lower than 5%. The vinyl resin include constitutional units represented by formulas (1-1) to (1-3). The atomic groups X1 and X2 included in the constitutional units represented by the respective formulas (1-1) and (1-2) are each derived from N-methylol group and represented by —NHCH2O—.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus has a recording head, a thermal head, and a heat control portion. The recording head has an ink discharge surface. The thermal head is arranged opposite the ink discharge surface across a recording medium conveying passage and heats a recording medium. In the thermal head, a plurality of element arrays each formed of a plurality of heating elements arrayed in the recording medium conveying direction are provided in the width direction. The heat control portion makes at least part of the heating elements in the element arrays that correspond to the ink discharge ports that discharge ink generate heat.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus has a recording head, a thermal head, and a heat control portion. The recording head has an ink discharge surface. The thermal head is arranged opposite the ink discharge surface across a recording medium conveyance passage, and heats the recording medium. The thermal head is provided with a plurality of element arrays in the width direction, the element arrays each having a plurality of heating elements arrayed in the recording medium conveyance direction. The heat control portion makes generate heat at least some heating elements in the element arrays corresponding to the ink discharge ports through which ink is discharged.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to enable extraction of more structures having a possibility including problems. A problem structure extraction support system extracts multiple loop structures from an evaluation model, replaces a common portion which includes nodes and links in series common to the multiple loop structures by one of the nodes included in the common portion, and determines the reference models corresponding to the multiple loop structures.

Abstract: Toner particles each include a toner mother particle and an external additive. The toner mother particle includes a toner core containing a binder resin and a shell layer covering a surface of the toner core. The external additive includes a plurality of external addition resin particles. The external addition resin particles are each present on a surface of the shell layer. The shell layer contains a specific vinyl resin. The toner core and each resin particle are bonded together through a covalent bond within the shell layer. A detachment rate of the resin particles is lower than 5%.

Abstract: A transfer-printing method includes a transfer paper preparing step, a transferring step, and a releasing step. The transfer paper preparing step involves forming an image using transfer-printing ink containing a pigment and a fixing resin by ejecting the ink onto a transfer paper base and then drying at a temperature lower than the cross-linking temperature of the fixing resin to obtain transfer paper. The transferring step involves transferring the image formed on the transfer paper to cloth by pressing, while heating at a temperature higher than the cross-linking temperature of the fixing resin. The releasing step involves releasing the transfer paper from the cloth having the image fixed to it. The layer thickness of the ink layer formed on the transfer paper base is 50 nm to 500 nm, and, in the transferring step, the ink layer is transferred in the form of film to the surface of the cloth.

Abstract: Toner particles of a toner each include a toner mother particle and an external additive. The toner mother particle includes a toner core containing a binder resin and a shell layer covering a surface of the toner core. The external additive contains a plurality of first external additive particles each containing a resin. The first external additive particles are present on a surface of the shell layer. The toner core and each of the first external additive particles are bonded together through a covalent bond in the shell layer. The covalent bond includes a first amide bond and a second amide bond. The shell layer contains a vinyl resin. The vinyl resin includes constitutional units (1-1), (1-2), and (1-3). The first amide bond is an amide bond included in the constitutional unit (1-1). The second amide bond is an amide bond included in the constitutional unit (1-2).

Abstract: Toner particles of a toner each include a toner mother particle and an external additive. The toner mother particle includes a toner core containing a binder resin and a shell layer covering a surface of the toner core. The external additive contains a plurality of first external additive particles each containing a resin. The first external additive particles are present on a surface of the shell layer. The toner core and each of the first external additive particles are bonded together through a covalent bond in the shell layer. The covalent bond includes a first amide bond and a second amide bond. The shell layer contains a vinyl resin. The vinyl resin includes constitutional units (1-1), (1-2), and (1-3). The first amide bond is an amide bond included in the constitutional unit (1-1). The second amide bond is an amide bond included in the constitutional unit (1-2).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to enable extraction of more structures having a possibility including problems. A problem structure extraction support system extracts multiple loop structures from an evaluation model, replaces a common portion which includes nodes and links in series common to the multiple loop structures by one of the nodes included in the common portion, and determines the reference models corresponding to the multiple loop structures.

Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner core containing a binder resin and a shell layer coating the surface of the toner core. The binder resin contains an ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer. The shell layers contain a unit derived from a monomer of a thermosetting resin. The thermosetting resin is at least one resin selected from the group of amino resins consisting of a melamine resin, a urea resin, and a glyoxal resin.

Abstract: The present invention enables dynamic route switching according to link quality, while maintaining the quality of a plurality of routes. According to quality information received from a second network control entity, if the control unit of a network management station has determined that the quality of communication over a particular link has degraded, the control unit assigns a link whose current throughput satisfies a bandwidth required for a service defined in the service contract and whose response time satisfies minimum response time defined in the service contract to each service in descending order of priority.

Abstract: The present invention enables dynamic route switching according to link quality, while maintaining the quality of a plurality of routes. According to quality information received from a second network control entity, if the control unit of a network management station has determined that the quality of communication over a particular link has degraded, the control unit assigns a link whose current throughput satisfies a bandwidth required for a service defined in the service contract and whose response time satisfies minimum response time defined in the service contract to each service in descending order of priority.

Abstract: A viewing effect measuring system is provided. A user terminal performs a content output process for receiving content from a content delivery apparatus and outputting the content, a Web site displaying process for accepting a request to access a Web site, while the content are outputted, accessing the Web site via the network, and displaying the Web site in such a manner as available for browsing, and a measurement information sending process for establishing an association between Web site specifying information which identifies the Web site as to which the access is requested, and content specifying information which identifies the content being outputted when the access is performed, and sending information of the association as viewing information to a measuring server. The measuring server receives the viewing information from the user terminal and sends the information to a Web server of the Web site as measurement information.

Abstract: Related information of a content is provided quickly. A meta-information collection part 12 of a related information providing server 10 periodically collects Electronic Program Guide information as meta-data of a broadcast program from an Electronic Program Guide distribution station 70. A keyword extraction part 13 extracts keywords from the Electronic Program Guide information. A related information acquisition part 14 acquires related information that includes the keyword from a search apparatus 50, and associates the related information with the keyword and stores them in a cache memory 28. When a related information providing part 15 receives a search request with keywords for related information from a user terminal 30, the related information providing part 15 extracts related information corresponding to the keyword among the information stored in the cache memory 28, and sends the extracted information to the user terminal 30.