Abstract: A printing apparatus has a take-out shaft and a rolling-up shaft to supply an intermediate transfer ribbon provided with a transfer layer having a first area in a prescribed pattern and a blank and transparent second area, a printer portion to print prescribed data on the transfer layer of the supplied intermediate transfer ribbon, and a transfer portion to transferr the printed prescribed data on an image receiving medium (a passbook) 1 jointly with the transfer layer. The printer portion and the transfer portion are controlled independently in a first mode to cover the entire image receiving medium and in a second mode to cover the image receiving medium by the first area and the second areas.

Abstract: A printer device is equipped with a supply shaft and a take-up shaft for conveying an intermediate transfer medium having a transferring layer in a prescribed pattern, a printer portion for printing prescribed information on the transferring layer of the conveyed intermediate transfer medium, a transferring portion for transferring prescribed printed information together with the transferring layer on an image receiving medium, and a pressurization mechanism for press fitting an image receiving medium and the intermediate transfer medium by applying a fixed pressure irrespective of a thickness of an image forming medium.

Abstract: The surface characteristics with respect to a high-frequency electromagnetic field of a material to be tested are measured by placing opposite a flat mirror material to be tested one of a pair of concave spherical reflection mirrors fabricated in the same way and formed with high-reflectance circular coupling regions, placing the other spherical reflection mirror at a position symmetrical to the one reflection mirror with respect to the flat mirror material as the plane of symmetry, measuring the Q value of the open resonator formed by the one reflection mirror and the flat mirror material, removing the flat mirror material from the optical axis, measuring the Q value of the open resonator formed by the pair of spherical reflection mirrors, calculating the absolute value of the reflectance of the flat mirror material to be tested from the difference between the two measured Q values, and calculating the phase of the reflected wave at the surface of the flat mirror material to be tested from the measured reson

Abstract: An open resonator comprises two concave spherical reflectors or one spherical and one plane reflectors positioned so as to form a resonant structure and each being provided at an electromagnetic coupling region thereof with a large number of conductor stripes disposed in parallel at a spacing sufficiently small in comparison with the wavelength of an incident electromagnetic wave. The diameter of the circular coupling region can be made very large in comparison with the wavelength. An ultra-high Q value can be obtained with the open resonator with very high excitation efficiency to a resonator mode. The Q value of the open resonator can be varied with the angle between the directions of the conductor stripes of the two reflecting mirrors.