Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor including a first pair of conveyance rollers and a second pair of conveyance rollers each configured to nip and convey a sheet; a first jam releaser configured to separate rollers of the first pair of conveyance rollers from each other; a second jam releaser configured to separate rollers of the second pair of conveyance rollers from each other; and a controller configured to control the conveyor. In stopping sheet conveyance by the conveyor upon occurrence of a failure, the controller controls the conveyor to prevent a sheet from being nipped only by the first pair of conveyance rollers prior to separation of the rollers of the first pair of conveyance rollers from each other by the first jam releaser.

Abstract: An airline ticket sales system having a stock recording unit retaining a stock of flights, and a destination candidate extraction unit including: receiving an input of at least one condition from a user via an information processing terminal, information about a destination airport being excluded from the condition; acquiring, from the stock recording unit, information about outbound candidate flights and inbound candidate flights satisfying the condition; extracting, as candidate airports, a predetermined number from airports common to arrival airports of the outbound candidate flights and departure airports of the inbound candidate flights; selecting, based on a predetermined criterion, one from round-trip candidate flights composed of combinations of the outbound candidate flights and the inbound candidate flights among the departure airports of the outbound candidate flights specified by the condition and the respective candidate airports; and regarding the selected one as a to-be-sold round-trip flight.

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a conveyer, a plurality of inkjet heads, a head cooler configured to generate cooling air and cool the plurality of inkjet heads by the generated cooling air, and a controller. The controller is configured to drive the plurality of inkjet heads to perform non-ejection drive on at least one of lines which involve no ink ejection, the non-ejection drive being driving of the plurality of inkjet heads to such a degree as to eject no ink. The controller is configured to determine a non-ejection drive ratio for each of the plurality of inkjet heads in accordance with a position of each of the plurality of inkjet heads, the non-ejection drive ratio being a ratio of lines on which the controller performs the non-ejection drive to the lines which involve no ink ejection.

Abstract: A driving circuit for causing a light emitting element to emit light in response to a driving signal is provided. The driving circuit comprising a first current supply circuit that starts to supply a driving current to the light emitting element in response to the driving signal, a second current supply circuit that starts to supply a supplementary current to the light emitting element in response to the driving signal. The second current supply circuit stops to supply the supplementary current upon detecting that a voltage applied to the light emitting element has reached a threshold voltage.

Abstract: An information-reading element may be provided, which can be made small, and allows the number of adjustment steps to be reduced, and an information-reading device may be provided. An information-reading element may be provided and equipped with a light-emitting element, which serves as a polarized light-emitting part for emitting polarized light as outgoing light, and a light-receiving element, which serves as a polarized light-receiving part for receiving the polarized light as returning light after the polarized light is reflected off a reflecting plate, said reflecting plate being a target object from which information is to be read, wherein the light-emitting element and the light-receiving element have different polarization characteristics from each other.

Abstract: Aspects and examples provide electronic elements and filter devices configured to prevent deterioration of the propagation characteristics caused by input and output signals being electromagnetically coupled to an electric conductor side wall. In one example an electronic filter includes an element substrate having a top surface, a bottom surface, a side surface, and piezoelectric body. A circuit including a plurality of SAW resonators is formed on the top surface of the element substrate. The electronic filter further includes a sealing substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a side wall including an electric conductor and formed to define a cavity between the top surface of the element substrate and the bottom surface of the sealing substrate, the side wall enclosing a periphery of the circuit and being connected to a ground potential of the circuit.

Abstract: A therapeutic agent for fibrosis, whose active ingredient is constituted by a glucosylceramide synthase inhibitor or lactosylceramide synthase inhibitor, or both, inhibits the nuclear translocation of phosphorylated Smad, thereby treating and preventing fibrosis.

Abstract: Based on information about a vehicle, the information can be projected and displayed onto a road surface or the like. An image projection apparatus, which projects an image, includes an acquisition unit that acquires the information about the vehicle, and an image projection unit that projects the image based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device capable of having simple wiring in mounting the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes at least one P-terminal, at least one N-terminal, a power output terminal, at least one power supply terminal, at least one ground (GND) terminal, at least one control terminal, and a package that is rectangular in a plan view and accommodates an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) being a high-side switching element, an IGBT being a low-side switching element, and a control circuit. The at least one control terminal is disposed on a first side of the package, opposite to a second side on which the power output terminal is disposed. The at least one P-terminal, the at least one N-terminal, the at least one power supply terminal, and the at least one GND terminal are disposed on a third side of the package, orthogonal to the second side.

Abstract: A trigger-type liquid dispenser that, even when lateral force is applied to a trigger, prevents liquid leakage. The trigger-type liquid dispenser includes a pump, which includes: a cylinder, which includes an inner tubular wall and an outer tubular wall; a piston, which has a front-side end portion; a front-side sealing piece and a rear-side sealing piece; an outer-circumferential-side support portion; and an inner-circumferential-side support portion. The outer-circumferential-side support portion is provided with an annular cut-off portion, which forms a gap between the outer-circumferential-side support portion and an outer circumferential surface of the piston.

Abstract: It is difficult to reduce the number of parts of a known bottle set. A bottle set includes: a bottle having an ink container capable of containing ink, and a nozzle through which the ink in the ink container can flow out; and a lid member that is attachable to and detachable from the bottle, and can cover the nozzle in a state where the lid member is attached to the bottle. An outflow port from which the ink in the ink container can flow out is formed in the nozzle, the lid member has a sealing portion that seals the outflow port in a state where the lid member is attached to the bottle, and the sealing portion is integrally formed in the lid member.

Abstract: A cartridge manufacturing method is a method for manufacturing a cartridge having a case, a chamber adapted to be filled with printing material, a supply port that leads the printing material inside the chamber to outside the case, a flexible sheet member that constitutes at least a portion of the chamber, and a biasing member that biases the sheet member in the direction that expands the capacity of the chamber. a filling port that communicates with the inside of the chamber is formed in the case, and the filling port is closed after the printing material is filled from the filling port to inside the chamber.

Abstract: A flow path member includes a first flow path-forming member made of a material capable of absorbing a laser light and a second flow path-forming member made of a material that has a lower absorbance with respect to the laser light than the first flow path-forming member and having in a portion of an inner surface that at least partially forms a flow path at least one welded portion that is welded to the first flow path-forming member. An outer surface side of the second flow path-forming member that is an opposite side to the inner surface is provided with at least one light blocking portion capable of blocking the laser light and at least one transmitting portion that is capable of transmitting the laser light and that is positioned on an opposite side to the at least one welded portion and the at least one light blocking portion and the at least one transmitting portion are in contact on at least one boundary with each other.

Abstract: A ladder-type surface acoustic wave filter assembly includes a plurality of series resonators formed on a substrate and connected between an input terminal and an output terminal. A first series resonator has a lowest resonance frequency among the plurality of series resonator. A parallel resonator formed on the substrate and connected between the plurality of series resonators and the ground terminal. A dielectric film is coupled to at least one of the plurality of series resonators and has an inverse temperature coefficient of frequency to that of the substrate. A film thickness of the dielectric film in a region where the second series resonator is formed is smaller than a film thickness of the dielectric film in a region where the first series resonator is formed.

Abstract: In a power converter apparatus, a first power converter circuit is configured of first power semiconductor devices, and a second power converter circuit is connected in parallel to the first power converter circuit, and is configured of second power semiconductor devices. A control circuit generates a control signal for controlling each power semiconductor device of the first and second power converter circuits. A timing control signal generator circuit compares a first amount of current flowing through the first power semiconductor devices with a second amount of current flowing through the second power semiconductor devices, and generate a timing control signal for controlling a timing of a rise or a fail of each of the control signals inputted to the first and second power converter circuits, based on a comparison result. A timing correction circuit controls the control signals to correct the timing of the rise or the fall thereof.

Abstract: Accuracy in determination of the attaching direction of an elongated cartridge is improved. A cartridge 4A according to this embodiment to be attached to a printer includes an ink supply port 414 that supplies ink to the printer, a misinsertion prevention upper face projection portion 140 that engages with misinsertion prevention portions 671 of a misinsertion prevention plate 160 in a cartridge attachment portion 6, and restriction front upper face projection portions 430 that abut against a first guide rail 650 and a first guide rail 651 and restrict a tilt of the cartridge in an intersecting direction that intersects the attaching direction at the time of attachment. These restriction front upper face projection portions 430 are arranged between a leading end side in the attaching direction CS and the misinsertion prevention upper face projection portion 140.

Abstract: A cartridge manufacturing method is a method for manufacturing a cartridge having a case, a chamber adapted to filled with printing material, a supply port for leading the printing material inside the chamber to outside the case, a flexible sheet member constituting at least a portion of the chamber, and a biasing member that biases the sheet member in the direction that expands the capacity of the chamber. Pressure is made to act on the printing material, and the printing material is filled from the supply port to inside the chamber.

Abstract: Attempts have been made in the past to predict the risk of onset of a disease from biological information, but, in practical terms, it is difficult to continuously acquire biological information on a regular basis, and there is no increase in the accuracy of predicting variations in the risk of onset of a disease based only on the acquired biological information. A compact pulse wave information acquisition element is fitted to a measurement subject, information is continuously acquired on a regular basis, and the risk of onset of cerebrovascular disease is predicted from fluctuations in blood pressure and pulse waveform on the basis of the pulse wave information continuously acquired on a regular basis.

Abstract: An elastic wave device includes an interdigital transducer (IDT) electrode in contact with a piezoelectric substrate having a bus bar electrode region including one of a first bus bar electrode and a second bus bar electrode of the IDT electrode, an alternately disposed region where first electrode fingers are alternately disposed with second electrode fingers of the IDT electrode, and an intermediate region including one of the first electrode fingers and the second electrode fingers. A dielectric film is formed in at least part of the intermediate region and in contact with an upper surface of the IDT electrode. The dielectric film includes a medium in which an acoustic velocity of a transverse wave propagating in the dielectric film is lower than an acoustic velocity of a main elastic wave of the alternately disposed region. The dielectric film is not formed in the alternately disposed region.

Abstract: An elastic wave resonator including a pair of comb-shaped electrodes and a pair of reflector electrodes formed on a piezoelectric substrate. In one example, the pair of comb-shaped electrodes includes first and second overlapping regions in which electrode fingers of the comb-shaped electrodes interdigitate, the second overlapping region being provided on both outside edges of the first overlapping region in an overlapping width direction, an overlapping width of the first overlapping region being greater than an overlapping width of the second overlapping region, the pair of comb-shaped electrodes being configured to excite a first elastic wave in the first overlapping region and to excite a second elastic wave in the second overlapping region, a frequency of the first elastic wave being higher than a frequency of the second elastic wave.