Abstract: A medium transport device includes a first transporter configured to transport a medium by nipping the medium along with rotation, a second transporter configured to transport the medium and disposed on an upstream side of the first transporter in a transport direction of the medium, a first adjuster configured to adjust a position of the medium in a width direction by moving the first transporter and the second transporter in the width direction of the medium with the medium nipped by the first transporter and the second transporter, and a second adjuster configured to adjust a contact pressure of the first transporter for the medium and a contact pressure of the second transporter for the medium based on resistance caused when the medium is moved in the width direction.

Abstract: A sheet transporting device includes: a skew correcting component configured to correct any skew of a sheet by executing speed-gap driving in which first and second transporting components that are arranged at respective positions in a direction intersecting a direction of sheet transport are driven for a predetermined time period with a speed gap between the first and second transporting components; and a changing component configured to change, with reference to a characteristic relevant to sheet transport, a state of the speed-gap driving of the skew correcting component.

Abstract: A sheet transporting device includes first and second position correcting components provided at respective positions in a direction of sheet transport and each being configured to correct a position of a sheet in a direction intersecting the direction of sheet transport by being shifted in the direction intersecting the direction of sheet transport while holding the sheet, and a changing component capable of changing an amount of correction of the position of the sheet individually for the first and second position correcting components.

Abstract: An authentication system includes at least one portable device and an authentication device. The at least one portable device includes a measurement unit configured to measure a signal intensity value in communicating with an authentication device, prior to registering of an authentication ID of the portable device by the authentication device, and an ID transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the authentication device, the authentication ID at a transmission timing depending on the signal intensity value measured by the measurement unit. The authentication device includes a receiving unit configured to receive the authentication ID transmitted by the portable device, a determination unit configured to select, as a target authentication ID, the authentication ID transmitted at a predetermined timing by the portable device, among at least one authentication ID received by the receiving unit, and a registration unit configured to register the target authentication ID selected by the determination unit.

Abstract: There is provided an antenna whose outside shape can be miniaturized while maintaining a gain at a desired level with respect to a radio wave of a wide frequency range. The antenna is configured by using a core of a laminate structure. The core is a plate of a rectangular outside shape, configured to have a laminate structure including each of first, second and third resin layers. The first resin layer has magnetic powder mixed therein and formed as a middle layer, and the second resin layer and the third resin layer made of resin only without magnetic powder mixed therein are formed to sandwich the first resin layer therebetween. In the core of the laminate structure, it is preferable to use a polymer resin for each of the resin layers, and to use soft ferrite powder as the magnetic powder.

Abstract: In an RFID tag including an IC chip for storing information, a thermoplastic resin surrounding the IC chip, and a circuit for transmitting or receiving radio signals bearing the information, the circuit is further fixedly adhered on the thermoplastic resin in a fashion being exposed out of the surface of the thermoplastic resin. Accordingly, a manufacturing process may be used for covering the IC chip mounted and bonded on the plate-likebody with the thermoplastic resin to thereafter form the circuit. It is thus possible to manufacture a thin RFID tag in a simplified manufacturing process.

Abstract: A scanning optical microscope including: a light source; a lens for altering the cross-sectional shape aspect ratio of a beam of light emitted from the light source; at least one lens for converging beams of light of different cross-sectional shape aspect ratio to create a linear light; a first light modulation member able to impart shade to the converged linear light; a lens that can form the light to which the shade has been imparted as a parallel light; a scanning member that can alter the angle of illumination; a lens for focusing the light to which the shade has been imparted; an objective lens for projecting the light to which the shading has been imparted to a sample body; and a lens for imaging the reflected light from the sample body or the light generated by the sample body on to a sensor.

Abstract: A scanning optical microscope including: a light source; a lens for altering the cross-sectional shape aspect ratio of a beam of light emitted from the light source; at least one lens for converging beams of light of different cross-sectional shape aspect ratio to create a linear light; a first light modulation member able to impart shade to the converged linear light; a lens that can form the light to which the shade has been imparted as a parallel light; a scanning member that can alter the angle of illumination; a lens for focusing the light to which the shade has been imparted; an objective lens for projecting the light to which the shading has been imparted to a sample body; and a lens for imaging the reflected light from the sample body or the light generated by the sample body on to a sensor.

Abstract: A printing apparatus employs a nearly linear conveying path P2 for printing paper P from a position confronting the platen roller 6 and thermal head 7 for composing the printing unit 3 to the paper discharge unit 2. The capstan roller 4, pinch roller 5, and discharge rollers 10, 10 are disposed opposedly to the conveying path P2, and at an intermediate position of the conveying path P2 intersects the conveying path P1 from the paper supply unit 1 to the printing unit 3. A paper supply port is disposed at the bottom of the paper cassette forming the paper supply unit 1, so that the conveying path P1 from the paper supply port to the printing unit 3 is shortened, and accordingly the paper conveying path is shortened. The printer construction simplified and downsized, while the precision of positioning of the printing paper and positioning of the printing head is enhanced, so that the printing quality may be improved.

Abstract: A heat pump type air conditioning system comprises an air duct in which air flows in a given direction with an aid of an electric air blower. A condenser is disposed in the air duct. A compressor has an outlet connected to an inlet of the condenser. A receiver dryer has an inlet connected to an outlet of the condenser. An outside expansion valve has an inlet connected to an outlet of the receiver dryer through a first passage. An outside evaporator has both an inlet connected to an outlet of the outside expansion valve and an outlet connected to an inlet of the compressor through a second passage. An inside evaporator is disposed in the air duct at a position upstream of the condenser. An inside expansion valve has both an inlet connected to the first passage and an outlet connected to an inlet of the inside evaporator.

Abstract: A printing apparatus employs a nearly linear conveying path P2 for printing paper P from a position confronting the platen roller 6 and thermal head 7 for composing the printing unit 3 to the paper discharge unit 2. The capstan roller 4, pinch roller 5, and discharge rollers 10, 10 are disposed opposedly to the conveying path P2, and at an intermediate position of the conveying path P2 intersects the conveying path P1 from the paper supply unit 1 to the printing unit 3. A paper supply port is disposed at the bottom of the paper cassette forming the paper supply unit 1, so that the conveying path P1 from the paper supply port to the printing unit 3 is shortened, and accordingly the paper conveying path is shortened. The printer construction simplified and downsized, while the precision of positioning of the printing paper and positioning of the printing head is enhanced, so that the printing quality may be improved.

Abstract: A sublime type thermal transfer printer uses an ink sheet on which a fixing agent of a sublimation ink is coated and thermally transfers the fixing agent of the ink sheet onto a plain printing paper first, then thermally transfers an image on the ink sheet onto the area of the printing paper where the fixing agent is transferred by subliming an ink coated on the ink sheet.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the density or the like of an object from the level of transmission through the object of gamma rays having different energy levels which are transmitted at the object by a gamma source having a predetermined solid angle of transmission. A collimator collimates gamma transmitted through the object and a scintillator generates light corresponding to the output of the collimator. Plural photomultipliers generate position-dependent electrical signals corresponding to the light generated by an incident gamma ray photon to the scintillator. A calculating circuit generates a density spectrum for the object from the position-dependent electrical signals by integrating the position-dependent electrical signals corresponding to each of the incident gamma ray photons to the scintillator.

Abstract: A method and portable apparatus for measuring radiation dose and identifying a source radionuclide. Energy correction to calibrate detected charge to .gamma.-ray energy level is made through the use of naturally occurring radiation from 40K in a potassium compound KCl. One embodiment includes a portable scintillator and photomultiplier (PMT) along with an accumulation memory, an input means, a signal processing circuit, a memory and an output means. A warning function informs of an abnormality when the difference between the measured radiation data and the standard data in the device memory exceeds a predetermined value.

Abstract: Apparatus for measuring the density of vertebrae or the like, comprises gamma ray emission means for emitting gamma rays within a predetermined target area; detecting means for detecting the gamma rays passing through the target area; and rotatable positioning means between the emission means and the detecting means for supporting a subject and exposing the subject to the gamma rays in the target area at a plurality of different angles.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is an automotive vehicle structure having a fore-and-aft direction and provided with at least one bumper assembly extending laterally of the automotive vehicle body structure. The vehicle body structure comprises a side member horizontally extending in a fore-and-aft direction and having a vertically intermediate horizontal plane, the bumper assembly being disposed above the horizontal plane, a rigid connecting member structurally intervening between and interconnecting the bumper assembly and the side member, and a rigid projection member projecting from the connecting member in a fore-and-aft direction and located below the horizontal plane.

Abstract: A washer system for an automotive vehicle, comprises a bumper fixed on the body of the automotive vehicle, which has an inner space therein, washer nozzle means provided on said bumper, a washer tank for containing a washing liquid at a predetermined level, a washer pump for supplying the washing liquid from said washer tank to said washer nozzle means, hose means connected via said washer pump between said washer tank and said washer nozzle means for feeding said washing liquid, and means for housing said washer tank, washer pump and hose means in the inner space of said bumper.

Abstract: The 1st type of parallel flow evaporator, comprising an upper tank and a lower tank, a plurality of flat pipes communicating said upper and lower tanks, fins inserted between each of said flat pipes, having an outlet pipe and an inlet pipe respectively, said outlet pipe being inserted into the innermost of said upper tank and provided with bores at respective positions above each of said flat pipes, and said outlet and inlet pipes are respectively inserted on the windward of said upper and lower tanks.

Abstract: The 1st type of parallel flow evaporator, comprising an upper tank and a lower tank, a plurality of flat pipes communicating said upper and lower tanks, fins inserted between each of said flat pipes, having an outlet pipe and an inlet pipe respectively, said outlet pipe being inserted into the innermost of said upper tank and provided with bores at respective positions above each of said flat pipes, and said outlet and inlet pipes are respectively inserted on the windward of said upper and lower tanks.

Abstract: A reinforcement member for an automobile door is constructed of a central piece formed from a plate of a high tensile strength steel and two end pieces of a mild steel that is the same material as the material forming an inner panel of the automobile door. The two end pieces are secured to end portions of the central piece and formed with attachment areas, respectively, at which the reinforcement member is secured to the door inner panel.