Abstract: A catcher protector includes: a first protective portion that protects a part of a torso of a catcher; and a second protective portion that protects another part of the torso of the catcher. The second protective portion has a back surface facing the torso of the catcher and a front surface disposed on a side opposite to the back surface. When air whose wind speed is 2.00 m/sec is sent by a blower from the front surface to the back surface of the second protective portion, the wind speed of the air passing through the back surface is faster than 0.20 m/sec.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head configured to eject a liquid; and a flow channel member including a flow channel coupling member detachably coupled to the liquid ejecting head, a supply channel coupled to a flow channel inside the flow channel coupling member, and a displacement member configured to be displaced between a closing position at which the displacement member closes the supply channel and an opening position at which the displacement member opens the supply channel. The displacement member restricts disconnection of coupling between the liquid ejecting head and the flow channel coupling member when the displacement member is located at the opening position. The displacement member does not restrict disconnection of coupling between the liquid ejecting head and the flow channel coupling member when the displacement member is located at the closing position.

Abstract: A method for treating surface of substrate, the method including forming a film including a high molecular weight condensate of a silylation agent on the surface thereof to allow a substrate having a plurality of regions to be modified at modification degrees that are different depending on materials of the regions on a surface of the substrate. The method includes preparing a substrate having a surface including two or more regions having different materials; exposing the surface to a surface treatment agent; and baking the substrate, the method not including rinsing the surface with a liquid between the exposing and the baking, the surface treatment agent including a silylation agent and not a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound, the silylation agent including organomonosilane that has 2 to 4 nitrogen atoms bonded to a silicon atom.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a shoe including an upper, the upper including an instep cover that covers the instep of a foot. The instep cover includes an instep cover body and a tongue. Two or more protrusions that are configured to extend in use from the instep cover body toward the foot are located at least in a region between the MP joint and the talus in a side portion of the instep cover body. The protrusions are made of embroidery. The protrusions have a height of 0.5 mm or more, a width of 2 mm or more, and a length of 2 mm or more. A distance between each pair of the adjacent protrusions is 2 mm or more in part of the region. The shoe of the present invention includes the upper that improves the heat dissipation properties without impairing the contact between the foot and the shoe.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a first drive circuit including a switching element that selects, from a plurality of drive elements, a drive element to which a drive signal for ejection of liquid through a nozzle is sent, a case defining a first accommodating portion that is a space accommodating the first drive circuit, and a first gas supply passage that is in communication with the first accommodating portion and through which gas is supplied to the first accommodating portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a shoe including an upper, the upper including an instep cover that covers the instep of a foot. The instep cover includes an instep cover body and a tongue. Two or more protrusions that are configured to extend in use from the instep cover body toward the foot are located at least in a region between the MP joint and the talus in a side portion of the instep cover body. The protrusions are made of embroidery. The protrusions have a height of 0.5 mm or more, a width of 2 mm or more, and a length of 2 mm or more. A distance between each pair of the adjacent protrusions is 2 mm or more in part of the region. The shoe of the present invention includes the upper that improves the heat dissipation properties without impairing the contact between the foot and the shoe.

Abstract: Provided is a clothing fabric including through holes that pass through the fabric in a thickness direction, wherein the through holes are arranged along one direction of the fabric. A water-repellent or hydrophobic region is arranged at least at part of the fabric in contact with the through holes, and a hydrophilic region is are arranged at the other portions. A portion of the water-repellent or hydrophobic region may form groove portions. The clothes of the present invention include the above-described clothing fabric, wherein the through holes that pass through a portion of the fabric in a thickness direction are arranged along a direction of a wearer' height.

Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus in which it is possible to use a suitable reaction liquid to be applied on the recording medium, out of multiple types of reaction liquids. A recording apparatus includes a transport mechanism that transports a recording medium, a reaction liquid applying mechanism that selectively applies, on the recording medium, either a first reaction liquid that reacts with ink or a second reaction liquid that reacts with the ink and is different from the first reaction liquid, and an ink discharge mechanism that is positioned downstream from the reaction liquid applying mechanism in the transport direction of the recording medium and discharges the ink onto the recording medium. It is preferable that the reaction liquid applying mechanism include a first reaction liquid discharge unit that discharges the first reaction liquid and a second reaction liquid discharge unit that discharges the second reaction liquid.

Abstract: There is provided a flow path structure including: a storage chamber that stores a liquid; a pressure receiver that receives a first pressure inside the storage chamber and a second pressure outside the storage chamber; a valve that changes the first pressure according to the movement of the pressure receiver; and a pressing portion that presses the pressure receiver according to the supply pressure of the fluid from a fluid supply source, in which an area of the front end of the pressing portion that presses the pressure receiver is smaller than an area of a rear end that receives the supply pressure.

Abstract: A printing apparatus executes a continuous printing by a printing execution unit while transporting a belt-shaped printing base material by a transport path in a longer direction. The printing execution unit includes a reaction solution discharge head, an ink discharge head, and a head for overprinting. The reaction solution discharge head forms a reaction solution layer containing a flocculant on a printing face of the printing base material. The ink discharge head forms a printing image by discharging an ink containing a color material on the reaction solution layer. The head for overprinting forms an overprint layer so as to be positioned on the reaction solution layer.

Abstract: A printing method uses a reaction liquid containing an aggregating agent capable of causing the aggregation of a color material. This printing method includes: applying a first reaction liquid to a recording medium; applying a background color ink that contains a color material for a background color to a region of the recording medium which is coated with the first reaction liquid; drying the recording medium coated with the background color ink by heating the recording medium; applying a second reaction liquid to a region of the dried recording medium which is coated with the background color ink; and applying an image forming ink that contains a color material having a color different from that of the background color ink to a region of the recording medium which is coated with the second reaction liquid.

Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus in which it is possible to use a suitable reaction liquid to be applied on the recording medium, out of multiple types of reaction liquids. A recording apparatus includes a transport mechanism that transports a recording medium, a reaction liquid applying mechanism that selectively applies, on the recording medium, either a first reaction liquid that reacts with ink or a second reaction liquid that reacts with the ink and is different from the first reaction liquid, and an ink discharge mechanism that is positioned downstream from the reaction liquid applying mechanism in the transport direction of the recording medium and discharges the ink onto the recording medium. It is preferable that the reaction liquid applying mechanism include a first reaction liquid discharge unit that discharges the first reaction liquid and a second reaction liquid discharge unit that discharges the second reaction liquid.

Abstract: A printing method uses a reaction liquid containing an aggregating agent capable of causing the aggregation of a color material. This printing method includes: applying a first reaction liquid to a recording medium; applying a background color ink that contains a color material for a background color to a region of the recording medium which is coated with the first reaction liquid; drying the recording medium coated with the background color ink by heating the recording medium; applying a second reaction liquid to a region of the dried recording medium which is coated with the background color ink; and applying an image forming ink that contains a color material having a color different from that of the background color ink to a region of the recording medium which is coated with the second reaction liquid.

Abstract: An recording apparatus includes a rotating drum with which a recording medium is fed along an outer peripheral surface, a reaction solution application section configured to apply a reaction solution onto the recording medium at a first position in an outer peripheral surface feed path that runs along the outer peripheral surface of the rotating drum, and an ink ejecting section configured to eject an ink that reacts with the reaction solution onto the recording medium onto which the reaction solution has been applied, at a second position that is more on a downstream side in a direction of feeding of the recording medium than the first position, in the outer peripheral surface feed path.