Abstract: An upper floor member 30 unitarily includes a floor panel portion 30a for forming a floor surface 12, a first wall portion 30b extending downwards from circumferential edges of the floor panel portion 30a and continuous in the circumferential direction, and a second wall portion 30c spanned between opposed portions of the first wall portion 30b and progressively increased in thickness toward the center of the floor panel portion 30a. The floor panel portion 30a is polygonal in shape, and the first wall portion 30b is progressively increased in thickness toward the center of each side. The first wall portion 30b extends downwards to the vicinity of the lower floor, and its lower end is supported by a support means 18. Thus, a double floor structure which is inexpensive, has a high stiffness, good workability, and offers a high vibration-damping performance can be provided.

Abstract: The angle of each collimator plate with respect to an X-ray focal point is determined by fitting the collimator plate in grooves formed in upper and lower supports each having an integral structure. In addition, the warpage of each collimator plate is corrected and its flatness is maintained by fitting the periphery of the collimator plate which is on the X-ray detector side in a corresponding groove of an abutment plate provided on the X-ray detection surface side of the upper and lower supports. Furthermore, each collimator plate is supported by the corresponding grooves of the upper and lower supports and the corresponding groove of the abutment plate at at least three sides.

Abstract: An upper floor member 30 is unitarily comprised of a floor panel portion 30a for forming a floor surface 12, a first wall portion 30b extending downwards from circumferential edges of the floor panel portion 30a and continuous in the circumferential direction, and a second wall portion 30c spanned between opposed portions of the first wall portion 30b and progressively increased in thickness toward the center of the floor panel portion 30a. The floor panel portion 30a is polygonal in shape, and the first wall portion 30b is progressively increased in thickness toward the center of each side. The first wall portion 30b extends downwards to the vicinity of the lower floor, and its lower end is supported by a support means 18. Thus, a double floor structure which is inexpensive, has a high stiffness, good workability, and offers a high vibration-damping performance can be provided.

Abstract: A detector unit for detecting X rays passed through a collimator having a plurality of collimator single plates, includes a substrate attached to a collimator support for supporting the collimator, a photodetecting device array including photodetecting devices mounted on the substrate, a scintillator block arranged corresponding to the photodetecting device array and provided on the photodetecting device array to convert the X rays into light, and an engaging component having an engaging portion provided on the collimator single plate side of the substrate, and engaged with the collimator single plate to regulate a position of the photodetecting device array or the scintillator block in a channel direction with respect to the collimator single plate.

Abstract: A detector unit for detecting X rays passed through a collimator having a plurality of collimator single plates, includes a substrate attached to a collimator support for supporting the collimator, a photodetecting device array including photodetecting devices mounted on the substrate, a scintillator block arranged corresponding to the photodetecting device array and provided on the photodetecting device array to convert the X rays into light, and an engaging component having an engaging portion provided on the collimator single plate side of the substrate, and engaged with the collimator single plate to regulate a position of the photodetecting device array or the scintillator block in a channel direction with respect to the collimator single plate.

Abstract: A tape cassette is set in a cassette accommodating section of a tape printer. A magnetically affixable printing tape is fed out from a holding reel along with an ink ribbon having a non-magnetic ink layer formed thereon across a cut in the tape cassette and conveyed through between a thermal head and a platen roller while being pressed by those elements. The printing tape comprises a printing layer and a magnetic layer pasted to the printing layer. The magnetic layer is magnetized such that S and N poles are alternately arranged longitudinally of the tape to thereby prevent turns of the tape roll from shifting widthwise. The magnetic layer has a coated fluorine layer formed thereon or has wrinkles formed thereon to thereby prevent blocking from occurring on a printing face of the tape due to its winding. Thus, the printing tape is conveyed in a correct attitude to enable a high quality image to be printed thereon.

Abstract: An identification label is affixed on a top surface of an image forming unit which is detachably installed in a main component of an image forming apparatus. The identification label is made of a thermosensitive paper on which a trademark logo is printed. A logo reader in the main component reads a pattern of the logo mark on the identification label. A control unit compares the read logo pattern with a previously stored pattern to discriminate whether the read logo mark is genuine or not. If the identification label has the genuine logo mark, the control unit executes printing. If the identification label has an irregular logo mark, printing is abandoned and an error message is displayed. When a genuine image forming unit is exhausted, the control unit controls a heating device to apply heat to the identification label in order to wholly or partially discolor the identification label so that the logo mark is transformed to unreadable one. That unit will be regarded as an irregular one thereafter.

Abstract: A two-dimensional array type of X-ray detector, incorporated into an X-ray computerized tomography apparatus, has a plurality of X-ray detecting elements arranged in the X and Y directions for detecting incident X-rays into electric signals. A mask is placed on the X-ray incidence side of the X-ray detecting elements. The mask is formed with a pattern of shield portions in line form each extending substantially parallel to the channel direction (X direction) to shield edges of all the X-ray detecting elements arranged in the x direction from incident X-rays. Thereby, the instability of sensitivity of X-ray detection of the edges of the X-ray detecting elements and arrangement errors of the X-ray detecting elements in the slice direction (Y direction) are canceled out.

Abstract: A tape cassette is set in a cassette accommodating section of a tape printer. A magnetically affixable printing tape is fed out from a holding reel along with an ink ribbon having a non-magnetic ink layer formed thereon across a cut in the tape cassette and conveyed through between a thermal head and a platen roller while being pressed by those elements. The printing tape comprises a printing layer and a magnetic layer pasted to the printing layer. The magnetic layer is magnetized such that S and N poles are alternately arranged longitudinally of the tape to thereby prevent turns of the tape roll from shifting widthwise. The magnetic layer has a coated fluorine layer formed thereon or has wrinkles formed thereon to thereby prevent blocking from occurring on a printing face of the tape due to its winding. Thus, the printing tape is conveyed in a correct attitude to enable a high quality image to be printed thereon.

Abstract: A printing tape cassette contains a printing medium tape wound around a reel and held so that its coloring layers appear outside. The coloring layers are colored in different colors at corresponding temperatures and fixed by fixing rays of different wavelengths. The cassette is a substantially square box made of a ray cutting material. The cassette is set on a printer and has a slit-like port through which the printing tape is fed out, a window which cuts the fixing rays and through which window the printing tape accommodated in the cassette is confirmable visually. The printer comprises a reel drive shaft, a platen roller, a guide plate, a tape sensor, a thermal head, a ray cutting shutter, a fixing ray irradiator and a cutter.

Abstract: Three ink storage chambers stored into a main body case of an ink cartridge is isolated from four surfaces of this main case body by way of a partition and depressing partition portions projected from this portion. Also, these ink storage chambers are isolated from a bottom portion of the main body case by a stepped portion of a lower cylindrical portion, and is arranged by forming space between a lid and the own ink chambers. Only refilling hole portions of an upper cylindrical portion are communicated with an external portion via holes of the lid. A label on which a trademark “ABC” is printed is attached onto the upper portions of the three refilling hole portions. A label reading apparatus is provided on the side of an ink-jet printer, and a printing operation by any ink cartridge other than the genuine-labeled in cartridge is not carried out. As a genuine ink refilling member, at least ink bottles and a label are employed as a set of such a genuine ink refilling member.

Abstract: When a laser beam is directed onto an optical head substrate (3) to allow it to form a spiral or concentric pit strings (P), the laser beam is so shot as to provide a path parallel to, or obliquely with respect to, the pit string (P). For example, the laser beam shot provides a circular arc path having a diameter corresponding to a sum of a radius r of the innermost side pit string {P(point B)} and a radius R of the outermost side pit string {P(point A)} on the optical disk substrate, the circular arc path contacting with the innermost side pit string and with the outermost side pit string on the optical disk substrate.

Abstract: A tape cassette which contains a roll of a magnetically affixable printing tape formed around a holding reel and a roll of an ink ribbon formed around a holding reel and having a non-magnetic ink layer formed on the ribbon is set in a cassette accommodating section of a tape printer. The printing tape and the ink ribbon are fed out from their holding reels within the cassette across a cut in the tape cassette and through between a thermal head and a platen roller while being pressed by those elements to thereby perform printing. The printing tape comprises a printing layer and a magnetic layer pasted to the printing layer. S and N poles which extend lengthwise of the tape are alternately arranged widthwise on the magnetic layer. Thus, two overlapping poles of any two adjacent turns of the tape have the same polarity at any peripheral position.

Abstract: A contents addressable memory circuit includes an inputting section, a contents addressable memory section and a control section. The inputting section divides an input data into n (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2) data blocks and supplies the n data blocks and an input address. The contents addressable memory section performs a data retrieving operation in units of data blocks to output addresses and coincidence flags corresponding to the data blocks. The coincidence flag is indicative of whether there is a data coincident with the corresponding data block. The control section outputs one of the outputted addresses based on the outputted addresses and the coincidence flags.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a paper stacking section for stacking a plurality of paper sheets cut to a given size.

Abstract: The disclosure of this application is directed to a semi-conductive composition, based on a polyolefin, carbon black and a polyethylene glycol, which is suitable for use as a semi-conductive layer, bonded to an insulation layer of an electrical cable, serving to protect the insulation from tree-like degradation, commonly referred to as water trees.

Abstract: An automatic air venting device including a venting cylinder communicating with the pressure side of an electromagnetic plunger pump down-stream of a discharge valve thereof, a valved plunger fitted in the venting cylinder for sliding reciprocatory movement, a valve mounted at an end of the valved plunger on the side of a return port, a valve seat located at the return port and adapted to be engaged by the valve when the internal pressure of the pump is above a predetermined value during operation of the pump, a spring urging the valve to be brought out of engagement with the valve seat, and a leak passage formed in the valved plunger for bringing the pressure side of the pump into communication with the return port when the valved plunger is urged by the spring to move in a direction in which the valve is brought out of engagement with the valve seat.

Abstract: An electromagnetic plunger pump includes a plunger which is electromagnetically activated. Normally, the plunger is supported in a balanced condition by a pair of opposing springs. Further, the plunger is vertically pierced by a hole extending along an axial line in which the plunger reciprocates in the vertical direction, responsive to an application of an intermittent electromagnetic force. A valve body is loosely fitted into a rod inserted in the vertical hole, reaching a contact portion of a discharge plunger, which interlocks with the electromagnetic plunger. The discharge plunger is forced shut by a spring acting in the valve closing direction. The valve body engages a valve seat to close a discharge passage during a pump shut-down. The valve body is liberated from the valve seat to open the discharge passage during pump operation.

Abstract: A polyolefin composition for electrical insulation which comprises polyolefin or crosslinked polyolefin and a small quantity of high-molecular weight polyethylene glycol. This composition is far less vulnerable to the deterioration that occurs as dendroid voids when employed as an electrical insulation of high-tension power cables which are operated under water. The polyethylene glycol has more than 44 carbon atoms and is used in an amount from 0.3 to 10 wt % based on polyolefin.