Abstract: A printing system includes a platen roller, a storage unit, a controller, and a printing device including a thermal head, a head drive source that is configured to move the thermal head in a first direction along which the thermal head approaches or separates from the platen roller, and at least a sensor that is configured to detect a position of the thermal head. In the printing system, the controller is configured to determine whether setting information of a print position is stored in the storage unit, detect the print position with the head drive source and the sensor when the setting information is not stored in the storage unit, and cause the head drive source to move the thermal head from a first position to a second position, when the setting information is stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: A printing system includes: a movable printing device; a control unit; and a device moving unit that is configured to move the movable printing device, the movable printing device includes a thermal head and a ribbon transport unit, the control unit is configured to: execute print operation control including: device position control; ribbon transport control; and head print control; execute, when a print stop command is received, print stop control; execute, when a print resume command is received after a start of execution of the print stop control, the print resume control, and execute, when predetermined information is received after the start of execution of the print stop control, reset control of causing the device moving unit to move the movable printing device to a reference position, causing the ribbon transport unit to transport the ink ribbon by a predetermined amount and then restarting the print operation control.

Abstract: A printing system includes: a printing device including a thermal head, a supplier, a winder, and a ribbon transport mechanism; and a controller configured to: transport an ink ribbon in a first direction from the supplier to the winder and heat the ink ribbon to perform printing; rewind the ink ribbon subjected to the printing in a second direction opposite to the first direction; after again receiving a print command, rewind the ink ribbon in the second direction by a first length corresponding to a length required to reach a printable speed; after the rewindings, store a second length corresponding to a length of the ink ribbon subjected to the printing upstream of the thermal head in the first direction; and feed the ink ribbon in the first direction by the stored second length.

Abstract: A printing system includes: a printing device including a thermal head, a supplier, a winder and a ribbon transport mechanism; a moving mechanism moving the printing device in a width direction of an ink ribbon; and a controller configured to: move the printing device in the width direction; when the printing device is moved for printing of a second row, rewind the ink ribbon; store the longest length of use of the ink ribbon by the printing in a first column of the ink ribbon; when printing with the thermal head proceeds to a second column, determine a transport amount of the ink ribbon based on the stored length; and after the first column of the ink ribbon is used by the printing, transport the ink ribbon based on the determined transport amount.

Abstract: A gas supply system includes: a plurality of tanks that are filled with a gas; a supply pipe that branches and is connected to the plurality of tanks and supplies the gas to a destination of supply; a plurality of shutoff valves that shut off connections between the plurality of tanks and the supply pipe; a plurality of temperature measuring units that measures an internal temperature of the plurality of tanks; and a control unit that determines the shutoff valve that is to be opened first out of the plurality of shutoff valves by using the internal temperatures of the plurality of tanks, which are measured at a time of start of the supply of the gas, when the control unit switching the plurality of shutoff valves from a closed state to an open state at the time of start of the supply of the gas.

Abstract: There is provided a film forming apparatus for performing a film forming process on substrates by heating the substrates while the substrates are held in a shelf shape by a substrate holder in a vertical reaction container. The film forming apparatus includes: an exhaust part configured to evacuate the reaction container; a gas supply part configured to supply a film forming gas into the reaction container; a heat insulating member provided above or below an arrangement region of the substrates to overlap with the arrangement region and configured to thermally insulate the arrangement region from an upper region above the arrangement region or a lower region below the arrangement region; and a through-hole provided in the heat insulating member at a position overlapping with central portions of the substrates to adjust a temperature distribution in a plane of each substrate held near the heat insulating member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fixing apparatus including a tubular film, a heater provided at an inside of the film, a protection element provided at the inside of the film, and at least one conductive member provided at the inside of the film. The protection element includes two terminals and a switch that turns off to shut off power to the heater when the heater abnormally generates heat. A first end of the conductive member is electrically connected to one of the terminals of the protection element. The conductive member is not coated with an insulator, and a second end of the conductive member projects out of the film so that the cost of the fixing apparatus is reduced.

Abstract: A heater holder includes a restriction portion and a recessed portion. The restriction portion determines the position of a cable in the longitudinal direction of the heater. The recessed portion, against which a bare conductive portion of the cable is to be positioned, is provided at a position that is different from the position of the restriction portion as viewed in a direction intersecting with the longitudinal direction. A wire is joined to the bare conductive portion somewhere between the restriction portion and the recessed portion.

Abstract: There is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a processing container accommodating a boat on which a substrate is mounted; and an injector that extends in a vertical direction along an inner wall of the processing container in a vicinity of the processing container and has a plurality of gas holes in a longitudinal direction, wherein the plurality of gas holes is oriented toward the inner wall in the vicinity of the processing container.

Abstract: There is provided a method of forming a silicon film, which includes: a film forming step of forming the silicon film on a base, the silicon film having a film thickness thicker than a desired film thickness; and an etching step of reducing the film thickness of the silicon film by supplying an etching gas containing bromine or iodine to the silicon film.

Abstract: There is provided a substrate processing method comprising etching a silicon film formed on a surface of a substrate accommodated in a processing container by supplying an etching gas to the substrate, purging the processing container by supplying a hydrogen-containing gas that reacts with the etching gas as a purge gas into the processing container, and forming an additional silicon film on the substrate.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a display control program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including, monitoring an operation of a user for one or a plurality of display contents displayed on a screen, determining whether a result of the monitoring corresponds to at least one of a plurality of operation patterns stored in a memory, and outputting, on the screen, information corresponding to the one or the plurality of display contents when the result of the monitoring corresponds to the at least one of the plurality of operation patterns, the information being different in accordance with which operation pattern, included in the plurality of operation patterns, corresponds to the result of the monitoring.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fixing apparatus including a tubular film, a heater provided at an inside of the film, a protection element provided at the inside of the film, and at least one conductive member provided at the inside of the film. The protection element includes two terminals and a switch that turns off to shut off power to the heater when the heater abnormally generates heat. A first end of the conductive member is electrically connected to one of the terminals of the protection element. The conductive member is not coated with an insulator, and a second end of the conductive member projects out of the film so that the cost of the fixing apparatus is reduced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fixing apparatus including a tubular film, a heater provided at an inside of the film, a protection element provided at the inside of the film, and at least one conductive member provided at the inside of the film. The protection element includes two terminals and a switch that turns off to shut off power to the heater when the heater abnormally generates heat. A first end of the conductive member is electrically connected to one of the terminals of the protection element. The conductive member is not coated with an insulator, and a second end of the conductive member projects out of the film so that the cost of the fixing apparatus is reduced.

Abstract: A device equipped with a tank includes: a tank storing gas; a receptacle to be coupled to a gas supply nozzle; a filling passage communicating the tank with the receptacle; and a determination unit configured to determine whether there is a leak in the filling passage based on an amount of decrease in pressure in the filling passage per unit time, after supplying of the gas cooled to below freezing to the tank through the receptacle and the filling passage is finished, when a temperature of the receptacle is a predetermined temperature or greater and a pressure in the filling passage in a state where all valves opening and closing the filling passage are closed is greater than a first pressure, wherein the receptacle incorporates a check valve inhibiting backflow of the gas from the filling passage.

Abstract: A device equipped with a tank, includes: the tank to be filled with a fuel gas; a valve mechanism provided in the tank; a receptacle with which a nozzle of a fuel gas filling device is connectable; a first filling path, an upstream end of the first filling path communicating with the receptacle; a second filling path, a downstream end of the second filling path communicating with the tank through the valve mechanism; and a storage container hermetically communicating between a downstream end of the first filling path and an upstream end of the second filling path, and storing foreign matter contained in the fuel gas, wherein the storage container is positioned vertically above the downstream end of the first filling path.

Abstract: Provided is a sanitary cleansing device configured so that user's defecation can be promoted with a comfortable feeling by spraying of cleansing water. The present invention provides a sanitary cleansing device (1) including a nozzle assembly (6) provided with a spray port, a nozzle drive device (12), an operation device (10) operated by a user, and a spray control device (20) configured to actuate the nozzle drive device to execute a massage cleansing mode. The massage cleansing mode is a cleansing mode for repeating a predetermined massage cleansing cycle including a turning movement pattern for turning a water splash point of the cleansing water sprayed from the spray port at the periphery of a private area position of a seated human body and a front-to-back movement pattern for moving the water splash point through the private area position in a substantially front-to-back direction of the human body.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, an image forming portion for forming an image on the drum and for transferring the image to a sheet, and a fixing portion for fixing the image on the sheet, while heating the sheet in a fixing nip. The fixing portion is provided above the drum, and includes a first roller, a second roller cooperative with the first roller to form the fixing nip, first and second covers for protecting the first and second rollers, respectively, and at least one opening for fluid communication between an inside and an outside of the fixing portion, the opening being provided in the first cover at a position that is lower than a line connecting a rotation axis of the first roller and a rotation axis of the second roller, as seen along a rotational axis of the second roller.

Abstract: Provided is a sanitary cleansing device configured to less provide a feeling of insecurity to a user when a cleansing mode for moving a water splash point in at least two directions is used. The present invention provides a sanitary cleansing device (1) including a nozzle assembly (6) provided with a spray port, a nozzle drive device (12), an operation device (10) operated by a user to switch a cleansing mode, and a spray control device (20) configured to switchably execute, a fixed spot cleansing mode in which the spray port is stopped at a predetermined reference private area position and a wide movement cleansing mode for moving a water splash point in at least two directions. When the wide movement cleansing mode begins, the spray port is positioned at the reference private area position, and then, starts movement of the water splash point.

Abstract: When a calibration starting condition of a pressure sensor is satisfied while a fuel cell vehicle is traveling, the fuel cell vehicle starts to travel by using electric power supplied from a secondary battery. In the fuel cell vehicle, a pressure sensor is calibrated based on hydrogen pressure in a hydrogen gas flow channel downstream of a pressure reducing valve after a shut-off valve of a hydrogen tank is closed, and the hydrogen in a hydrogen gas flow channel is exhausted until hydrogen pressure upstream of the pressure reducing valve and hydrogen pressure downstream of the pressure reducing valve become substantially equal to each other. The fuel cell vehicle travels by using electric power supplied from the secondary battery while the pressure sensor is being calibrated, so that calibration processing of the pressure sensor can be performed without causing a noise.