Abstract: A screen printing plate is arranged on the front of a back plate vertically placed on a base, positioned by the base and a positioning member, and fixed by a fixing member. A thermal head is moved in respective directions of X, Y, Z by respective moving parts MX, MY, MZ, and a desired image is made on a screen. Since the screen printing plate is perpendicular to a horizontal plane, dust and the like slips on a surface of the screen printing plate and moves outside a platemaking area even if they drop on the screen without adhering to the surface. The Z-axis direction moving part MZ is provided with a Z-direction energizing unit and if a position in a Z-direction of the thermal head is adjusted by the Z-axis direction moving part MZ, force with which the thermal head presses the screen printing plate can be finely adjusted.

Abstract: Provided is a tape cartridge or the like that prevents detection target portions from contacting a finger or the like when an exposed area is provided in a cartridge case to cause the detection target portions of a tape-shaped member to be exposed. A tape cartridge includes a label tape 101 having a plurality of label portions 105 and a plurality of detection target portions 109 and a cartridge case and is installed in a tape feeding apparatus that feeds the label tape 101 based on the passage detection of the detection target portions 109 to separate the label portions 105 at a cut spot 112 on the label tape 101 at a cut position P3 outside the cartridge case.

Abstract: An object is to accurately calculate an index indicating a probability of an event occurring to a patient in the future. A mortality risk calculation unit acquires a heart/mediastinum ratio (H/M ratio), obtained by administering a heart function diagnostic medicine to a first subject, from subject data stored in a subject data storage unit, and calculates an index indicating a probability of a predetermined event occurring to the first subject by substituting the H/M ratio acquired from the subject data storage unit into a function defined in accordance with a history of occurrences of the predetermined event to a plurality of second subjects.

Abstract: An object is to more accurately compare diagnosis indexes with each other, which are calculated from data obtained in different environments with a cardiac-function diagnostic medicine. A conversion function calculation unit acquires a first phantom Heart/Mediastinum ratio (H/M ratio) and a second phantom H/M ratio based on a phantom, the first phantom H/M ratio that is an H/M ratio of the phantom in the first imaging environment being acquired by performing, based on phantom data that is data of a first phantom image obtained by imaging the phantom in the first imaging environment and digital phantom data that is data of a digital phantom including a cardiac ROI and a mediastinum ROI, positioning of the digital phantom on the first phantom image, and by calculating based on the phantom data of the first phantom image to which the cardiac ROI and the mediastinum ROI are set; and obtains a conversion function based on the first phantom H/M ratio and the second phantom H/M ratio.

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with light sensors. The electronic device may have an electronic device housing in which a display is mounted. The display may have a transparent layer such as a transparent display cover layer, a thin-film transistor layer, or a color filter layer. An opaque masking layer such as a layer of black ink may be used to cover an inner surface of the transparent layer in an inactive area of the display. Sensor window openings may be formed in the black ink layer. A layer of ink may be formed in each sensor window opening. Each layer of ink may have a diffuse reflectivity that is matched to that of the black ink. A diffuser layer such as a polymer coating layer with light-scattering particles may be coated on the inner surface of the layer of ink in a sensor window opening.

Abstract: A sheet cartridge includes a label sheet and a cartridge case. The label sheet has plural label portions temporarily attached at a predetermined label pitch to a long backing sheet, and plural label position detection target portions provided at a detection target end portion that is one end in a direction of width of the backing sheet and configured to indicate a print start position and a cutting position for the each label portion. The cartridge case accommodates the label sheet that is wound, in such a way that the label sheet can be reeled off, and in which a detection opening for exposing the each label position detection target portion for detection is formed.

Abstract: A sheet cartridge includes: a label sheet having plural label portions temporarily attached at a predetermined label pitch to a long backing sheet, and plural label position detection target portions provided at a detection target end portion that is one end in a direction of width of the backing sheet and configured to detect a print start position and a cutting position for the each label portion; and a cartridge case which accommodates the label sheet that is wound, in such a way that the label sheet can be reeled off, and in which a detection opening for exposing the each label position detection target portion for detection is formed.

Abstract: A tape placement apparatus has a roll placement section in which a roll portion Ra of a tape roll is placed in a width direction, a feeding path on which a pulled-out portion Rb of the tape roll is set in the width direction and a set position regulation section that is provided in an outer surface side path formation section forming the feeding path and positionally regulates a width end at an upstream side in a set direction of the pulled-out portion set on the feeding path in the width direction.

Abstract: A vehicle steering device includes a steering wheel operated by a driver to steer a vehicle; a steering reaction force motor that applies a reaction force to the steering wheel; a turning device that turns turning wheels of the vehicle by a turning motor; a clutch mechanism that mechanically connects and disconnects the steering wheel with and from the turning device; a control device that provides control so that a turning angle is based on a steering angle of the steering wheel; and a temperature sensor that measures a temperature. The vehicle steering device mechanically couples the steering wheel and the turning device and activates the steering wheel and the turning device if the temperature is a predetermined value or lower.

Abstract: A measuring apparatus includes a case unit that is provided with a detection unit that detects biometric information; a band unit that fixes the case unit to a living body; and a buckle unit that is connected to the band unit to form a ring shape and has an adjustable length.

Abstract: A tape feeding apparatus has a feeding roller that feeds a tape and a roller accommodation section that has a cylindrical accommodation section inner surface along with a roller outer circumferential surface of the feeding roller, accommodates the feeding roller having a gap with the roller outer circumferential surface, and has a roller opening aperture through which the accommodated feeding roller faces the tape. The feeding roller is rotatably supported at one end section side in a cantilever state and is opened at the other section side.

Abstract: Techniques and apparatus to provide improved visibility to user input devices, such as keys, are disclosed. In low light conditions, keys can be difficult to distinguish. For example, often keys have legends on them to visually distinguish them from one another, but in low light conditions it can be difficult for users to visually distinguish the different keys. The legends can be textual and/or graphic. Hence, according to one embodiment, light from a nearby display device can be used to provide illumination to the user input devices (e.g., keys). More particularly, in one embodiment, some light from the nearby display device can be directed towards and reflected from the user input devices (e.g., keys) to enhance visibility of the keys or the legends thereon.

Abstract: A medium feeder includes a first rotation body; a second rotation body which engages with the first rotation body while overlapping with the first rotation body, and disengages from the first rotation body in response to the presence of the feed target medium nipped between the first and second rotation bodies; a rotation body support member which supports the second rotation body, and is configured to be movable between an advancing position where the second rotation body engages with the first rotation body and a retreating position where the second rotation body disengages from the first rotation body; and a detection unit which detects migration of the rotation body support member to the retreating position.

Abstract: In an outdoor unit having a housing containing a heat exchange chamber and a machine chamber vertically partitioned by a partition plate, an electrical component box includes a main body portion disposed in the machine chamber and having a first electrical component unit, and a protrusion portion protruding from the machine chamber into the heat exchange chamber and having a second electrical component unit. The main body portion and the protrusion portion are joined to form an air flowing path for sucking cooling air from the back surface side of the machine chamber, branching the cooling air into first cooling air directly flowing to the sink tank and second cooling air passing over electrical parts of the first electrical component unit and then converging with the first cooling air at the entrance of the sink tank.

Abstract: An authentication system includes a first hologram, a second hologram, a light source, and an image pickup device. In this case, the first hologram is a transmission hologram for causing interference with data of the second hologram in order to authenticate the second hologram, the second hologram is a reflection hologram to be authenticated, and light from the light source is reflected by the second hologram, the reflected light is irradiated to the first hologram as reference light for the first hologram. Diffracted light through the first hologram is acquired by the image pickup device to authenticate the second hologram.

Abstract: A sheet cartridge includes: a label sheet having plural label portions temporarily attached at a predetermined label pitch to a long backing sheet, and plural label position detection target portions provided at a detection target end portion that is one end in a direction of width of the backing sheet and configured to detect a print start position and a cutting position for the each label portion; and a cartridge case which accommodates the label sheet that is wound, in such a way that the label sheet can be reeled off, and in which a detection opening for exposing the each label position detection target portion for detection is formed.

Abstract: A tape processing apparatus has a print feeding section that holds a printing tape to feed forward, a tape cutter that is provided ahead of the print feeding section in a feeding direction and cuts off a rear end of a printed portion of the printing tape in a width direction thereof, and a tape ejection section that opens to apparatus cases and that can eject a fed printing tape forward in the feeding direction and can eject the printing tape of which terminal end passes through the print feeding section downward.

Abstract: A tape placement apparatus has a roll placement section in which a roll portion Ra of a tape roll is placed in a width direction, a feeding path on which a pulled-out portion Rb of the tape roll is set in the width direction and a set position regulation section that is provided in an outer surface side path formation section forming the feeding path and positionally regulates a width end at an upstream side in a set direction of the pulled-out portion set on the feeding path in the width direction.

Abstract: A tape A tape feeding apparatus has a feeding roller that feeds a tape and a roller accommodation section that has a cylindrical accommodation section inner surface along with a roller outer circumferential surface of the feeding roller, accommodates the feeding roller having a gap with the roller outer circumferential surface, and has a roller opening aperture through which the accommodated feeding roller faces the tape. The feeding roller is rotatably supported at one end section side in a cantilever state and is opened at the other section side.

Abstract: A digital camera comprises an image sensor for providing initial sensor image data and final sensor image data; a lens for exposing the image of a scene onto the image sensor; an exposure control system for adjusting an exposure level of a final image on the image sensor in response to a scene type; and a processor for processing the initial sensor image data to select one of a plurality of scene types, and to process the final sensor image data in response to the scene type.