Abstract: An openable cover automatic opening mechanism includes a lever rotatable about a rotation fulcrum, a locking section that is positioned at one end of the lever and that maintains the openable cover, which is in a closed state and which receives an opening force, in the closed state by locking with the openable cover, and a power receiving section positioned at the other end of the lever for contacting the horizontally moving carriage to receive power of the carriage. The lever rotates when the carriage comes into contact with and presses the power receiving section, and releases maintenance of the closed state of the openable cover by the locking section.

Abstract: A medium feeding device includes a feeding roller that is provided in a medium feeding path through which a medium is fed and that feeds a medium downstream by rotating in the forward direction in response to power of a motor, a nip roller that is provided in the medium feeding path and that nips a medium in cooperation with the feeding roller and rotates, and a controller configured to control the motor. Based on an increase in a variation value varying in accordance with a drive load of the motor, the controller controls the motor and causes the feeding roller to start a medium feeding operation.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for removing boron and a method for removing boron for reducing the boron concentration in water to be treated, and an apparatus and a method for producing pure water wherein the boron concentration is reduced. An apparatus for removing boron includes: a first electrodeionization device to which water to be treated is supplied; an ultraviolet oxidation device to which the water treated by the first electrodeionization device is supplied; an oxide removal device to which the water treated by the ultraviolet oxidation device is supplied; and a second electrodeionization device to which the water treated by the oxide removal device is supplied. A method for removing boron using the apparatus is provided. The oxide removal device is equipped with a platinum group metal catalyst, and the water that has been treated by the oxide removal device has a hydrogen peroxide concentration of less than 1 ppb.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an automatic opening mechanism for an opening/closing cover, a carriage that has a print head configured to perform printing on a medium and that moves in a direction intersecting a transport direction of the medium, and a discharge portion that is exposed in a state in which the opening/closing cover is opened and that discharges a printed material. The automatic opening mechanism includes a lever for releasing maintenance of a closed state of the opening/closing cover by movement of the carriage. The discharge portion discharges the printed material outside the apparatus. The automatic opening mechanism is arranged so as to overlap a discharge opening region of the discharge portion in a height direction.

Abstract: A method for operating a deionized water production system for producing deionized water from water to be treated using an electrodeionization device includes: providing a water intake mode, in which the water to be treated is passed through a demineralization chamber of the electrodeionization device without energizing the electrodeionization device to obtain treated water, and a water intake and regeneration mode, which is operated alternately with the water intake mode and in which treated water is passed through the demineralization chamber to obtain treated water while the electrodeionization device is energized, and water is further passed through at least one of a concentration chamber and an electrode chamber of the electrodeionization device; and operating the electrodeionization device such that the operation time of the water intake mode is 1.5 to 6.4 times the operation time of the water intake and regeneration mode.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting device includes a device main body including a liquid ejecting head, a reading unit configured to be opened and closed at a top of the device main body and read an image of a document, and a liquid accommodating unit disposed at a device front surface that is a side surface directly opposite to a user among side surfaces of the device main body, the liquid accommodating unit being configured to accommodate the liquid to be ejected from the liquid ejecting head, wherein the reading unit includes a notch portion at a corner portion on a device front side, and a part of the liquid accommodating unit is inserted into the notch portion, and a space above the liquid accommodating unit is open.

Abstract: A substrate holder includes a main body having a first arm and a second arm whose leading ends are spaced apart from each other and whose base ends are connected to each other; a first holding guide fixed to the leading end of the first arm, and configured to hold a periphery of the substrate; and a second holding guide fixed to the leading end of the second arm, and configured to hold the periphery of the substrate. A length between the first holding guide and the second holding guide is shorter than a diameter of the substrate. In a state that the substrate is located closer to the base ends than a position where the substrate is held by the first holding guide and the second holding guide, the first arm, the second arm, the first holding guide and the second holding guide are located diametrically outside the substrate.

Abstract: A recording device includes a reading device including a reading unit that reads an image of a document, a placement unit at which a medium is placed, and a recording unit that performs recording on the medium transported from the placement unit. A size of the medium is determined by emitting light from the reading unit toward a detection target and calculating a position thereof, the position of the detection target changing in accordance with the size of the medium placed at the placement unit.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a power transmission unit configured to be in a power transmission state in which power of a motor is transmitted to a medium reception tray and a power non-transmission state in which the power of the motor is not transmitted to the medium reception tray, and a switching lever unit configured to switch between the power non-transmission state and the power transmission state. The switching lever unit rotates between a contact position and a non-contact position. When the switching lever unit is at the contact position, the switching lever unit switches between the power non-transmission state and the power transmission state by sliding in contact with the carriage as a carriage reciprocates.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a transport roller, a discharge roller, a medium reception tray, a motor, a power transmission unit configured to be in a power transmission state in which power of the motor is transmitted from the motor to the medium reception tray and a power non-transmission state in which the power of the motor is not transmitted from the motor to the medium reception tray, and a belt being stretched around a transport roller pulley and a discharge roller pulley. The power transmission unit is positioned between an outer end portion of the transport roller pulley and an outer end portion of the discharge roller pulley in a discharge direction.

Abstract: An oral composition containing nicotine, the bulk density of the oral composition being 0.4 g/cm3 or greater.

Abstract: An oral composition containing an inorganic porous material as a base material, and additionally containing nicotine, the inorganic porous material content being 6 wt % or greater.

Abstract: An oral composition comprising: an inorganic porous material having an average particle size of 60 ?m or more, as a base material; and nicotine, wherein, in the inorganic porous material, the pore volume of pores having a pore size not less than 2 nm but less than 50 nm, as measured by a nitrogen adsorption method and calculated by the BJH method, is 0.50 cm3/g or more.

Abstract: A pure-water production device including: a first reverse osmosis membrane device to which water to be treated is supplied; a second reverse osmosis membrane device to which permeated water from the first reverse osmosis membrane device is supplied; an electrodeionization device to which permeated water from the second reverse osmosis membrane device is supplied; a brine tank to which concentrated water from the first reverse osmosis membrane device is supplied; and a third reverse osmosis membrane device connected to the brine tank, wherein the second reverse osmosis membrane device is a high-pressure reverse osmosis membrane device, the brine tank is supplied with at least one concentrated water selected from the group consisting of concentrated water from the second reverse osmosis membrane device and concentrated water from the electrodeionization device, wherein permeated water from the third reverse osmosis membrane device is supplied to water to be treated, is used.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a housing; a recording section that performs a recording operation on a medium and is disposed inside the housing; a storage section that stores the medium; a transport route along which the medium is transported; a transport section that transports the medium; a reading section that reads an original sheet and is positioned higher than the recording section; a supply section that supplies the original sheet to the reading section; and a supply route through which the original sheet passes. Each of the supply and transport routes is formed at substantially right angles to a width of the housing. The transport route has a curved section in which the medium is turned over. The reading section is positioned behind the recording section in a depth direction from the front to rear surface of the housing.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a housing; a recording section that performs a recording operation on a medium and is disposed inside the housing; a storage section that stores the medium; a transport route along which the medium is transported; a transport section that transports the medium; a reading section that reads an original sheet and is positioned higher than the recording section; a supply section that supplies the original sheet to the reading section; and a supply route through which the original sheet passes. Each of the supply and transport routes is formed at substantially right angles to a width of the housing. The transport route has a curved section in which the medium is turned over. The reading section is positioned behind the recording section in a depth direction from the front to rear surface of the housing.

Abstract: A water treatment system includes a reverse osmosis membrane device, an electrodeionization device that is located downstream of the reverse osmosis membrane device, a first heat exchanger that is located upstream of the reverse osmosis membrane device and that adjusts the temperature of the water supplied to the reverse osmosis membrane device according to the temperature of raw water supplied to the water treatment system, and a second heat exchanger that is located between the reverse osmosis membrane device and the electrodeionization device and that cools the water supplied to the electrodeionization device. One of the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger is an internal heat exchanger that exchanges heat inside the water treatment system, and the other is an external heat exchanger that exchanges heat with the outside of the water treatment system.

Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal fitting connected to an electric wire; a housing including a housing chamber, an electric wire drawing port, a communication hole, and a counterpart fitting chamber where a gap formed between the counterpart fitting chamber and a counterpart terminal fitting is filled with a first sealing member; a lid member; a second sealing member that fills a gap between these and forms a first sealed space part in the housing with the first sealing member; a waterproof member including one end part in close contact with an end part of the housing, the other end part in close contact with the electric wire drawn from the electric wire drawing port, and a tubular part, the tubular part including a second sealed space part communicating with the first sealed space part through the electric wire drawing port; and a ventilation component.

Abstract: A radiation monitoring device realizes a high measurement function. Therefore, a radiation monitoring device includes: a radiation detection unit including a phosphor that emits light by incident radiation; a photodetector that converts a single photon or a photon group having a plurality of the single photons generated by the radiation detection unit into an electric pulse signal; and an analysis unit that analyzes the electric pulse signal. The phosphor emits light based on a plurality of light emission phenomena having different decay time constants. The analysis unit includes: a signal discrimination circuit that discriminates the electric pulse signal output from the photodetector; a dose rate calculation circuit that calculates a dose rate of the radiation based on a count rate of the discriminated electric pulse signal; and an application energy calculation circuit that calculates application energy of the radiation based on a peak value of the discriminated electric pulse signal.

Abstract: A waterproof construction of a three-phase line part includes a three-phase line part having three bus bar construction bodies, a first terminal block provided on one end side of the three-phase line part, a second terminal block provided on the other end side of the three-phase line part, and a tubular exterior member that covers a middle portion of the three-phase line part. One end of the tubular exterior member is water-tightly fixed to a first housing of the first terminal block, and the other end thereof is water-tightly fixed to a second housing of the second terminal block, in a state that the tubular exterior member covers the three-phase line part.