Abstract: A vehicle loads at least one of a plurality of upper units having space to store a person or an object on an under unit including a drive mechanism that rotates wheels in the vehicle. The vehicle includes an under unit including a drive mechanism that rotates wheels and the at least one of the plurality of upper units loaded on the under unit. The under unit includes a loading unit, on which the at least one of the plurality of upper units as described above can be loaded. Each of the plurality of upper units includes a joint that joins to a different upper unit that is adjacently loaded.

Abstract: In a case in which a communicating apparatus connected to an information processing apparatus using a first interface supports a predetermined service, and a second interface of the communicating apparatus, which is to be used when the communicating apparatus communicates, for the predetermined service, with another apparatus different from the information processing apparatus, is different from the first interface, a control apparatus sets the second interface of the communicating apparatus to enable communication with the other apparatus.

Abstract: A management system includes a printing apparatus replaceably holding a first and a second replaceable item, and a management server. The printing apparatus includes a transmission unit that transmits identification data indicating identification information on the printing apparatus and data including a value related to a usage amount of the second replaceable item. The management server includes an acquisition unit that acquires a value related to a previous usage amount of the second replaceable item from a memory based on the identification data from the printing apparatus. The management server includes a determination unit that makes a determination about a delivery instruction of the first replaceable item based on the value related to the usage amount of the second replaceable item, which is transmitted from the printing apparatus, and the value related to the previous usage amount of the second replaceable item, which is acquired from the memory.

Abstract: In a case in which a communicating apparatus connected to an information processing apparatus using a first interface supports a predetermined service, and a second interface of the communicating apparatus, which is to be used when the communicating apparatus communicates, for the predetermined service, with another apparatus different from the information processing apparatus, is different from the first interface, a control apparatus sets the second interface of the communicating apparatus to enable communication with the other apparatus.

Abstract: A management system includes a printing apparatus replaceably holding a first and a second replaceable item, and a management server. The printing apparatus includes a transmission unit that transmits identification data indicating identification information on the printing apparatus and data including a value related to a usage amount of the second replaceable item. The management server includes an acquisition unit that acquires a value related to a previous usage amount of the second replaceable item from a memory based on the identification data from the printing apparatus. The management server includes a determination unit that makes a determination about a delivery instruction of the first replaceable item based on the value related to the usage amount of the second replaceable item, which is transmitted from the printing apparatus, and the value related to the previous usage amount of the second replaceable item, which is acquired from the memory.

Abstract: A power supply device includes a transformer, a primary semiconductor component, a secondary semiconductor component, a choke coil and a circuit board. Electronic components which include the transformer, the primary semiconductor component, the secondary semiconductor component, and the choke coil, are stacked in pairs, in a normal direction of a board. One pair forms a first stacked body and another pair to forms a second stacked body. A circuit board is interposed between the one pair of electronic components which forms the first stacked body, and also between the other pair of electronic components which forms the second stacked body.

Abstract: A power supply device includes a transformer, a primary semiconductor component, a secondary semiconductor component, a choke coil and a circuit board. Electronic components which include the transformer, the primary semiconductor component, the secondary semiconductor component, and the choke coil, are stacked in pairs, in a normal direction of a board. One pair forms a first stacked body and another pair to forms a second stacked body. A circuit board is interposed between the one pair of electronic components which forms the first stacked body, and also between the other pair of electronic components which forms the second stacked body.

Abstract: In an electronic apparatus, a case houses an electronic apparatus main body and is electrically conductive. A terminal block is attached to a case wall of the case. In the terminal block, a main body portion is composed of an insulating material. An external terminal is inserted into a through-hole formed in the case wall, and is connected to the electronic apparatus main body. A capacitor is disposed inside the main body portion. An elastic member is disposed inside the main body portion, is composed of a conductive material, is interposed at least one of between the capacitor and the external terminal, and between the capacitor and the case wall, and fixes the capacitor inside the main body portion by pressing the capacitor. The capacitor and the elastic member configure a filter circuit that allows a noise current included in the external terminal to flow to the case wall.

Abstract: In an electronic apparatus, a case houses an electronic apparatus main body and is electrically conductive. A terminal block is attached to a case wall of the case. In the terminal block, a main body portion is composed of an insulating material. An external terminal is inserted into a through-hole formed in the case wall, and is connected to the electronic apparatus main body. A capacitor is disposed inside the main body portion. An elastic member is disposed inside the main body portion, is composed of a conductive material, is interposed at least one of between the capacitor and the external terminal, and between the capacitor and the case wall, and fixes the capacitor inside the main body portion by pressing the capacitor. The capacitor and the elastic member configure a filter circuit that allows a noise current included in the external terminal to flow to the case wall.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a moving unit configured to move an object group including a plurality of objects within a predetermined area of a display apparatus, and a control unit configured to display in the predetermined area, the objects included in the object group, wherein the control unit changes a shape of the object group so that the objects displayed outside the predetermined area can be displayed within the predetermined area, in a case where one or more objects displayed within the predetermined area are placed outside the predetermined area when the moving unit moves the object group.

Abstract: A method for processing an image obtained by reading an original plate on which at least one original is placed includes a determining step of determining whether the image is corresponding to one original or a plurality of originals placed on the original plate, an extracting step of extracting, from the image, one original image component corresponding to the one original or a plurality of original image components corresponding to the plurality of originals, and a processing step of performing image processing on the one or the plurality of extracted original image components, the image processing being different in accordance with the result of the determining step.

Abstract: A method for processing an image obtained by reading an original plate on which at least one original is placed includes a determining step of determining whether the image is corresponding to one original or a plurality of originals placed on the original plate, an extracting step of extracting, from the image, one original image component corresponding to the one original or a plurality of original image components corresponding to the plurality of originals, and a processing step of performing image processing on the one or the plurality of extracted original image components, the image processing being different in accordance with the result of the determining step.

Abstract: In a DC-to-DC converter which can convert DC power supplied to a first voltage system circuit, having first and second switching elements, to DC power at a boosted voltage, produced from a second voltage system circuit having third and fourth switching elements, with conversion performed based on control of a switching sequence of the switching elements, the sequence is designed such that switch-off of each of the first and second switching elements occurs only when the current flowing in the switching element is close to zero, thereby suppressing occurrence of voltage surges at switch-off.

Abstract: In a DC-to-DC converter which can convert DC power supplied to a first voltage system circuit, having first and second switching elements, to DC power at a boosted voltage, produced from a second voltage system circuit having third and fourth switching elements, with conversion performed based on control of a switching sequence of the switching elements, the sequence is designed such that switch-off of each of the first and second switching elements occurs only when the current flowing in the switching element is close to zero, thereby suppressing occurrence of voltage surges at switch-off.

Abstract: An enzyme solution obtained by cultivating Bacillus subtilis M2-4 strain highly heat-resistant peptidase activity such that the residual activity thereof after 1-hr heat treatment at 60 to 65° C. at pH 7 is substantially 100%. An enzyme preparation can be obtained by separating the enzyme protein from the enzyme solution. Using such enzyme solution or enzyme preparation as an active component, a proteolytic enzyme preparation can be prepared. The enzyme solution, the enzyme preparation and the proteolytic enzyme preparation have both high heat-resistance and great potency of hydrolyzing proteins into low molecules.

Abstract: In an automatic storage system and an automatic storing method for automatically take in and out a container box 1 accommodating therein a wafer carrier 6, a take-in port and a take-out port of a storage unit 8 are unified to one common inlet/outlet port 15, and a control is conducted to the effect that when the container box 1 is taken in and out on the basis of a take-in/take-out schedule of the container box 1 to the storage unit 8, the empty container box is ceaselessly left at the inlet/outlet port 15. Thus, the take-in/take-out operation can be smoothly conducted with no necessity of enlarging the storage unit 8 and with no congestion of the conveying container box accommodating therein the wafer carrier 6.

Abstract: A DNA gene which encodes transglutaminase, a plasmid in which the DNA gene is incorporated, a transformant transformed with the plasmid and a process for the production of transglutaminase that comprises culturing the transformant.