Abstract: Efficiency of operation related to acquisition of a tilt offset of a surveying apparatus is improved. A total station includes a tilt sensor, a tilt offset acquisition unit that acquires a tilt offset of the tilt sensor, a measurement unit that measures a variable value of a phenomenon that can cause the tilt offset to vary, and a determination unit that determines whether to acquire the tilt offset, based on output from the measurement unit.

Abstract: The method of packaging an article by folding a sheet-shaped packaging material includes: a determining step of determining a size of the packaging material and a packaging pattern of the packaging material in accordance with information about the article; a packaging material supplying step of performing at least one of selecting and cutting operations on the packaging material so as to match the size determined in the determining step, and then supplying the packaging material; a packaging material working step of forming a score line on the packaging material supplied in the packaging material supplying step in accordance with the packaging pattern determined in the determining step; and a packaging body forming step of conveying and placing the article onto a predetermined position of the packaging material on which the score line has been formed in the packaging material working step, and then folding the packaging material along the score line to form a box-shaped packaging body.

Abstract: This invention provides a packaging material for a photographic photosensitive material having a conductive light-shielding thermoplastic resin film layer which comprises a resin composition comprising 3 to 49 wt. % of a thermoplastic elastomer having a crystallinity of 40% or less measured by the X-ray diffraction method, 0.01 to 10 wt. % of lubricant, and 1 to 70 wt. % of carbon black which is acetylene carbon black or furnace carbon black, which is excellent in the dispersion of carbon black to improve light-shielding ability and rare generation of lumps and microgrits, heat sealing properties, small degradation of physical strength, film moldability, etc.

Abstract: A completely light-shielding packaging material for a photosensitive material obtained on laminating two sorts of separately molded light shielding thermoplastic resin films of different properties on the photosensitive material side and on its outer side via an adhesive layer. The outer thermoplastic resin film is a polypropylene-based resin film at least containing a light-shielding material and a homopolypropylene resin or an .alpha.-olefin containing polypropylene-based resin and having a Young's modulus in the longitudinal direction of 150 to 600 kg/mm.sup.2 and a thickness of 15 to 80 .mu.m. The inner thermoplastic resin film is a polyolefin-based resin film at least containing a light-shielding material, an ethylene copolymer resin and a polyolefin resin, and having a Young's modulus in the longitudinal direction of not higher than 120 kg/mm.sup.2 and a thickness of 20 to 150 .mu.m. This material has physical strength, heat-sealing performance, and amenability to bag making.