Abstract: An air suction device for a toilet drain passage, which can independently of the place of installation of a toilet body and condition of use, constantly generate a siphon effect to perform excellent toilet flushing. The air suction device (20) sucks air from a toilet drain passage (5) connected to the downstream side of a water sealing section (4) of a toilet body (1), and has a suction tank wherein a first diaphragm (31) is placed in a housing (30H) so as to be movable in the vertical direction in an installed position, the first diaphragm (31) partitions the housing (30H) into a first chamber (32) on the upper side and a second chamber (33) on the lower side, and the second chamber (33) communicates with the toilet drain passage (5).

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of recording image information and additional information added separately from the image information to a photographic printing medium is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes: image information acquisition means for acquiring the image information, additional information acquisition means for acquiring the additional information, and recording means for recording the image information acquired by the image information acquisition means and the additional information acquired by the additional information acquisition means to the photographic printing medium, wherein the recording means can record the additional information by laminating a first transparent material that absorbs light of a specific wavelength and a second transparent material that does not absorb the light on a recording surface of the photographic printing medium.

Abstract: An air suction device for a toilet drainage channel, capable of good and silent toilet flushing. The air suction device (200) for the toilet drainage channel (5) has air suction means for sucking air from the toilet drainage channel (5) connected to the downstream side of a water sealing part (4) of a toilet body (1). The air suction means has an ejector (30) serving as a negative pressure generator and also has a suction tank (80) connected between the ejector (30) and the toilet drainage channel (5). The air suction device (200) further has a control device (C) for controlling both execution of a suction stroke in which the suction tank (80) exhausts air into the toilet drainage channel (5). The control device (C) executes the air suction stroke after the start of the supply of flush water to the bowl (2) of the toilet body (1) and then executes the air exhaust stroke before the completion of the supply of the flush water to the bowl (2).

Abstract: A printer includes a fragment receiving section provided below a cutter and receiving a non-printing area cut off as a fragment falling thereinto, and a printed matter receiving section provided below the cutter and receiving a printing area cut off as a piece of printed matter and falling thereinto. The fragment receiving section includes a rocking plate rocked by a rocking mechanism between a first rocking position, where an upper end of the rocking plate resides on the downstream side in a paper conveying direction with respect to a cutting position so as to allow the fragment to fall into the fragment receiving section, and a second rocking position, where the upper end of the rocking plate resides on the upstream side in the paper conveying direction with respect to the cutting position so as to guide the piece of printed matter into the printed matter receiving section.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveying unit that conveys a recording medium in a predetermined direction, a thermal transfer sheet traveling unit that causes a thermal transfer sheet to travel in a predetermined direction, a modification sheet moving unit that moves a surface modification sheet, a thermal head that applies thermal energy and thermally transfers sequentially a dye layer and a protective layer of the thermal transfer sheet onto the recording medium while the dye layer or the protective layer opposes the surface of the recording medium, and a modification sheet protecting unit disposed in a movement path of the surface modification sheet, and configured to prevent adhesion of dust to the surface modification sheet or to eliminate the adhesion.

Abstract: In an image-forming method, a ribbon-shaped thermal transfer sheet with a dye layer and a protective material layer arranged side-by-side in the longitudinal direction is moved, and thermal energy is applied from a thermal head while arranging a recording medium to face the dye layer to thermally transfer the dye layer onto the recording medium to form an image. Thermal energy is applied while arranging the image to face the protective material layer to thereby form a protective layer on the image by thermal transfer. A ribbon-shaped surface-property-modifying sheet including a surface-property-modifying region for modifying the surface of the protective layer is moved, and the protective layer is aligned with the surface-property-modifying region of the surface-property-modifying sheet. Heat and pressure are applied from the thermal head and the surface-property-modifying sheet is detached after cooling to modify the surface condition of the protective layer.

Abstract: A thermal printer includes a conveying roller for conveying a recording sheet, a thermal head for transferring ink onto the recording sheet by driving a heating element, and a platen roller arranged to oppose the thermal head for pinching the ink ribbon and the recording sheet between the platen roller and the thermal head during ink transferring. The thermal printer prints images by transferring ink onto the recording sheet while the recording sheet pinched between the thermal head and the platen roller being conveyed, and the conveying roller is arranged upstream the platen roller in a feeding direction of the recording sheet. The platen roller can convey the recording sheet at least in the feeding direction by its rotation, and the printing is performed while the recording sheet being conveyed in the feeding direction by the cooperation of the conveying roller with the platen roller.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of recording image information and additional information added separately from the image information to a photographic printing medium is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes: image information acquisition means for acquiring the image information, additional information acquisition means for acquiring the additional information, and recording means for recording the image information acquired by the image information acquisition means and the additional information acquired by the additional information acquisition means to the photographic printing medium, wherein the recording means can record the additional information by laminating a first transparent material that absorbs light of a specific wavelength and a second transparent material that does not absorb the light on a recording surface of the photographic printing medium.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of recording image information and additional information added separately from the image information to a photographic printing medium is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes: image information acquisition means for acquiring the image information, additional information acquisition means for acquiring the additional information, and recording means for recording the image information acquired by the image information acquisition means and the additional information acquired by the additional information acquisition means to the photographic printing medium, wherein the recording means can record the additional information by applying a transparent material that absorbs light of a specific wavelength to the area that does not absorb the light on a recording surface of the photographic printing medium.

Abstract: A sheet package according to the present invention is formed of a synthetic resin sheet and designed in a square-cornered bag shape to have an outer shape corresponding to sheets and a height at which plural sheets are stacked. The sheet package thus constructed is supplied to a user in a state where plural sheets are beforehand stacked and accommodated in a sheet package and packed by a vinyl bag or the like by a sheet maker. Accordingly, the user merely opens the vinyl bag to set the sheets into a sheet tray of a printer by the sheet package.

Abstract: An ejector-type gas nozzle 17 including a liquid nozzle and a gas nozzle is used. Raw material water A in ozone reaction tank 1 is pumped and pressurized by pump 19 to use it circulatingly as water jet A of the ejector gas nozzle 17. The liquid nozzle of ejector-type gas nozzle 17 introduces the water jet A into the raw material water A in the ozone reaction tank 1. Ozone gas is sucked by negative pressure to be generated along the stream of water jet A so that it is injected into the raw material water A from the gas nozzle of ejector-type gas nozzle 17 as fine gas bubbles. A high concentration ozone water solution is produced by dissolving ozone into the raw material water A due to the gas-liquid reaction between the ozone fine gas bubbles and the raw material water A.