Abstract: An ink container includes an ink container body and a memory attached to the ink container body for storing predetermined information. The memory is bonded to a part of the surface of the ink container body at its surface opposed to the surface of the ink container body over an area not larger than 90% of its surface facing toward said part of the surface of the ink container body.

Abstract: A stencil printing ink container includes an ink container body. An ink charge port is provided in an end wall of the ink container body and an inner plug is mounted on the ink charge port. The inner plug is provided with an ink discharge port smaller in the outer diameter than the inner diameter of the ink charge port and gives an ink suction nozzle of an ink pump access to the ink discharge port.

Abstract: A piston-type ink container is inserted into an ink container holder of a stencil printer so that an ink suction nozzle of the stencil printer is fitted in a small diameter portion of the ink container to suck the ink in the ink container through an ink discharge port on the tip of the small diameter portion. A vacuum release mechanism at least partly releases vacuum in the space evacuated by the ink suction nozzle before the tip of the nozzle and the tip of the small diameter portion are aligned with each other when the ink container is drawn from the ink container holder.

Abstract: According to the stencil making and attaching method of a printing device of the present invention, independent of variations in the detection of the stencil sheet set position detection sensor and variations in the clamped state due to curled stencil sheet, etc., it is possible to always set the image-formation start position of the stencil sheet at a regular position with respect to the drum rotation position, and consequently to improve the positional precision of the printing operation.

Abstract: A stencil making device includes supporting a supporting device for rotatably supporting a rolled stencil a sheet; perforating device for perforating the stencil sheet conveyed from the supporting device to form an image therein; a pair of rollers rotatably disposed between the supporting device and the perforating device to hold the stencil sheet therebetween; and a torque applying device attached to one of the rollers to apply a predetermined torque to the roller when it rotates.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organopolysiloxane having acryloyl groups or methacryloyl groups at both terminals thereof, where silicon atoms at both terminals of the organopolysiloxane are each independently added to double bonds each of acryloyl groups or methacryloyl groups of compounds each having at least two acryloyl groups or methacryloyl groups; a curable resin composition comprising such an organopolysiloxane; and a process for producing such an organopolysiloxane comprising adding a compound having at least two acryloyl groups or methacryloyl groups to an organopolysiloxane having SiH groups at only both terminals thereof. The curable resin composition has distinguished transparency, luster, peelability, surface lubricity and water and oil repellency, and therefore is useful as a resin for mold-releasable paper, a coating agent, an anticorrosive agent for printed substrate, etc.

Abstract: A stencil forming apparatus in which a stencil for a stencil printing formed from a rolled stencil sheet, includes: a guide roller; a rotatable platen roller having a central axis which is in parallel with the guide roller; a thermal head having a plurality of heat generating elements, and provided above the platen roller, wherein the stencil sheet pulled out of the rolled stencil sheet is passed through the platen roller and the thermal head through the guide roller and is subjected to thermally making fine holes thereon (the stencil of the stencil printing); and an intermediate roller provided between the platen roller and the guide roller wherein the intermediate roller is vertically movable in a predetermined range.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of an organosilicon compound represented by formula (3): ##STR1## which process comprises reacting an organosilicon compound represented by formula (1) with a (meth)acrylic acid ester represented by formula (2) in the presence of a catalyst: ##STR2## The symbols in the above formulae are defined in the specification.

Abstract: A compact, accurate, and inexpensive laser beam machine combining the simple structure of a two-dimensional stepping motor and features of laser-beam machining. The machine has a rotating shaft (39) capable of rotating about a vertical axis. The shaft (39) is mounted on a frame (61). A mirror (52) which reflects laser beam emitted from a laser is mounted on the shaft. The stepping motor has a mover (20). A second rotating shaft (34) capable of rotating about a vertical axis is mounted on the mover (20). A mirror (51) which reflects the laser beam, reflected by the mirror (52) toward a workpiece, is mounted on the second shaft (34). The rotating shafts (34, 39) are so driven that if the mover (20) shifts, the laser beam is kept focused to the workpiece by the two reflecting mirrors.

Abstract: In a sewing operation robot (1), a simple harmonic motion device (2) is mounted on a wrist portion (12) thereof, and a sewing machine (5) is fixed on a sliding portion (3) of the simple harmonic motion device (2) to position the sewing machine (5) arbitrarily in a three-dimensional space and to operate the sewing machine (5) in an inching mode. A counter weight having the same weight as that of the sewing machine (5) is provided on the simple harmonic motion device (2) to prevent vibrations from occurring. Since the sewing machine is operated in the inching mode without inching the entire sewing operation robot, even a robot of low rigidity can perform sewing operations without causing friction between the sewing machine and the cloth and, further, a compact lightweight sewing operation robot can be provided.

Abstract: An adhesive system comprising, as a primer, an organometallic compound and an organic polymer, which is useful in bonding non-polar or highly crystalline resin substrates together or bonding said resin substrates and another material, such as a solid material, a coating material, paint or printing ink by using a 2-cyanoacrylate adhesive.

Abstract: In order to obtain a manipulator using a plane pulse motor showing advantageous features such that even in a case where a moment of force is applied to the manipulator in a falling direction, the moment can be sustained by magnetic attraction caused by the pulse motor, the weight of the manipulator is reduced, the degree of freedom of the movement can be increased, and a rotating mechanism for a tool itself is eliminated; a plurality of movable members are provided on a stator of the plane pulse motor, a rotatable shaft is provided on each movable member so as to extend vertically, the rotatable shafts are connected with each other through a connecting member, a required tool is secured to the connecting member, and the movements of the movable members are made controllable in a manner correlated with each other. The manipulator using the plane pulse motor of the aforementioned construction is most adapted to be used in combination with an industrial robot and the like.

Abstract: A process for bonding a polyolefin, polyfluoroolefin, polyethylene terephthalate, polyacetal, nylon or plasticizer-rich soft polyvinyl chloride substrate to a like substrate or for bonding a polyolefin, polyfluoroolefin, polyethylene terephthalate, polyacetal, nylon or plasticizer-rich soft polyvinyl chloride substrates to another substrate which comprises applying to the surface of at least one of the substrates to be bonded together an adhesion promoter composition comprising 0.001-10 wt. % of at least one organometallic compound containing a metal selected from the group consisting of typical metals, applying a cyanoacrylate-based adhesive comprising an alpha-cyanoacrylate and bringing together the thus-treated surface of the substrates to be bonded.

Abstract: An elongate molding member is provided which includes a core element and a cover element made of synthetic resin material co-extruded about the core element. The core element has a strip-like ornamental portion which is different in color from the synthetic resin material of the cover element and is to be exposed to the outside by removing a separable portion defined by at least one longitudinal slit in the cover element. The ornamental portion of the core element has a longitudinally variable width to provide an aesthetically refined appearance and to thus satisfy various ornamental design requirements.

Abstract: A curable composition, in which powder of an organic or inorganic compound is added to and dispersed in a 2-cyanoacrylate and an acidic substance and a basic substance are contained as the stabilizer.In the curable composition of the invention, powder of organic or inorganic compound can be stably dispersed into the composition by the combined use of the acidic substance and the basic substance, thereby providing desired properties with ease while giving excellent storage stability and maintaining the instantaneous curing property of the composition. The curable composition can generally be used as adhesives, coating agents, paints, potting agents, etc.

Abstract: A contact detector for movable objects comprises two opposite circular plates in which a plurality of cylindrical depressed portions are equidistantly opened on the same circumferences from a common center axis of the two circular plates, respectively, a plurality of steel balls, having a diameter larger than the diameter of each depressed portion, inserted into corresponding depressed portions of the two circular plates, and hardened layers formed on the portions in contact with the steel balls of the circular plates by pressurizing two circular plates from the opposite sides of respective depressed portions. A portion of the surface of each steel ball is depressed into each recessed portion, and the one circular plate and the steel balls are pressed into contact with the other circular plate by an elastic member.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing molding members, for instance for automobiles, wherein an elongate shaped body is prepared from synthetic resin material either by an extrusion process, or by an injection process and is subjected to a controlled heating so as to soften the interior resin material while preserving the hardness of the outer surface portion. A cutter blade is advanced into the shaped body while it is subjected to the controlled heating, whereby the outer surface portion is urged and deformed inwardly to form a smooth end surface in continuous connection with remaining outer surface of the molding member.

Abstract: A locus interpolation device characterized in that the device is attached to an end of a wrist of a movable structure such as a robot, with a tool supported by the device, and a circular or noncircular locus is interpolated by controlling the operation of the tool independently from that of the movable structure.

Abstract: An elongate molding member for automobile body components and the like, as well as a method of producing such molding members are disclosed. The molding member (11) includes a core element (12), and a cover element (13) made of synthetic resin material co-extruded about the core element (11). The core element (11) has a strip-like ornamental portion (15) which is different in color from the synthetic resin material of the cover element (13) and is to be disclosed outside by removing a separable portion (18) defined by at least one longitudinal slit (17) in the cover element (13). The ornamental portion (15) of the core element (12) has a longitudinally variable width (W.sub.1, W.sub.2) to provide an aesthetically refined appearance and to thus satisfy various ornamental design requirements.

Abstract: A cyanoacrylate composition suitable as cyanoacrylate adhesives for bonding porous materials, shaping material and fingerprint detectors comprises a 2-cyanoacrylate as a main component and at least one of crown ethers, polyalkylene oxides and derivatives of the polyalkylene oxides as a curing accelerator and at least one of hydrophobic silicas.