Abstract: A decorative sheet including a base material, a three-dimensional shape printed portion provided on the base material by ultraviolet light curing inkjet printing, and an over-laminate film laminated on the base material and the printed portion, the over-laminate film including a film layer and an adhesive layer and having a three-dimensional shape following the three-dimensional shape of the printed portion.

Abstract: In a semiconductor-mounting heat dissipation base plate including: an insulating substrate to which a metal circuit layer for mounting a semiconductor chip thereon is fixed; a heat dissipation base formed from the same metal material as the metal circuit layer at a side opposite to the metal circuit layer across the insulating substrate and fixed to the insulating substrate similar to the metal circuit layer; and a strengthening member provided in the heat dissipation base so as to be separated from the insulating substrate, the sizes of crystal grains of a metal structure at a part of the heat dissipation base or the metal circuit layer are reduced by a crystal size reducing material adhered to a mold, thereby preventing an adverse effect of a columnar crystal structure.

Abstract: In a semiconductor-mounting heat dissipation base plate including: an insulating substrate to which a metal circuit layer for mounting a semiconductor chip thereon is fixed; a heat dissipation base formed from the same metal material as the metal circuit layer at a side opposite to the metal circuit layer across the insulating substrate and fixed to the insulating substrate similar to the metal circuit layer; and a strengthening member provided in the heat dissipation base so as to be separated from the insulating substrate, the sizes of crystal grains of a metal structure at a part of the heat dissipation base or the metal circuit layer are reduced by a crystal size reducing material adhered to a mold, thereby preventing an adverse effect of a columnar crystal structure.

Abstract: A lockup disengagement control device for an automatic transmission including a torque converter including a lockup clutch, and a lockup control section, the lockup disengagement control device includes: when a brake is operated from a brake OFF to a brake ON during a coast traveling in an engagement state of the lockup clutch, the lockup control section being configured to sense an initial deceleration by the brake ON operation, and to set a lockup release vehicle speed to be higher as an absolute value of the initial deceleration is greater, and when a vehicle speed is sensed to be equal to or smaller than the set lockup release vehicle speed in a middle of a brake deceleration scene by the brake ON operation, the lockup control section being configured to disengage the lockup clutch.

Abstract: A feeding instruction apparatus includes a transmission unit configured to transmit multiple feeding instructions in a case where a print job is received, with the feeding instructions each being an instruction to feed a certain number of print media, the certain number being two or more but less than the total number of print media to be used for printing based on the one received print job. A timing when a predetermined feeding instruction included in the multiple feeding instructions is transmitted is controlled based on a time period required for the predetermined image processing to be performed on the image data corresponding to images to be printed on print media to be fed based on the predetermined feeding instruction.

Abstract: An optical sensor includes a light receiving unit and a calculating unit. The light receiving unit includes a plurality of light receiving elements and a plurality of color filters. The plurality of light receiving elements include a first light receiving element and a second light receiving element through which a photocurrent flows when receiving light. The plurality of color filters include a yellow filter that covers a light receiving surface of the first light receiving element and a red filter that covers a light receiving surface of the second light receiving element. The calculating unit calculates an intensity of a yellow wavelength band based on a difference between a first output signal obtained from the photocurrent of the first light receiving element and a second output signal obtained from the photocurrent of the second light receiving element.

Abstract: A device for inserting n number of the electronic components into n number of housing recess in a carrier tape at once includes an imaging device that images, at an imaging position provided at an upstream side of the insertion position, a portion of the carrier tape that contains the n number of housing recesses; and a processor that determines, on the basis of an image captured by the imaging device, a two-dimensional position of each of the n number of housing recesses contained in the image relative to a reference point in the image, and that causes a two-dimensional position of the insertion position for the n number of the housing recesses that have been imaged by the imaging device to be corrected in accordance with the captured image so as to mitigate positional deviations of the n number of the housing recesses in the tape.

Abstract: A component conveyance disk of a taping apparatus has a plurality of component transport units at an equiangular interval. Each component transport unit is formed of three component transport grooves in a peripheral portion of the component conveyance disk. Width direction centerlines of the respective component transport grooves are parallel to each other, with a portion thereof in a direction along the width direction centerlines opening toward a component storage chamber. Dimensions along the width direction centerlines of the opened portion of the respective component transport grooves are shorter than a length of the component. In addition, the respective component transport grooves have component guides that guide the components into the respective component transport grooves.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to properly transmit feeding instructions to a feeding apparatus. A feeding instruction apparatus according to the present invention includes a transmission unit configured to transmit multiple feeding instructions in a case where the print job is received, the feeding instructions each being an instruction to feed a certain number of print media, the certain number being two or more but less than the total number of print media to be used for printing based on the one received print job. A timing when a predetermined feeding instruction included in the multiple feeding instructions is transmitted is controlled based on a time period required for the predetermined image processing to be performed on the image data corresponding to images to be printed on print media to be fed based on the predetermined feeding instruction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a taping apparatus including: a tray storage device supplying a designated one of plural kinds of trays on which respective different kinds of parts are scattered; a carrier tape feed device intermittently moving a designated one of plural kinds of carrier tapes which correspond to the respective different kinds of parts; a first camera capturing an image of the scattered parts on the designated tray; a first image recognizing device recognizing respective centers of the scattered parts; a rotary head individually sucking the scattered parts to rotatable suction nozzles; a second camera capturing an image of the parts sucked to the suction nozzles; a second image recognizing device recognizing respective orientations of the sucked parts; and a part inserting device adjusting the orientations of the sucked parts to orientations insertable into part storage recesses defined in the designated carrier tape and then inserting the parts into the part storage recesses, respectively.

Abstract: A taping device includes a device base with a tape traveling groove in a front surface of the device base; a parts conveying disk including parts housing grooves in an outer circumferential surface of the parts conveying disk at regular angular intervals and a rear surface disposed to face the front surface of the device base; a disk rotating mechanism for intermittently rotating the parts conveying disk; a parts feeding mechanism for feeding, in a parts feeding zone, the parts into the parts housing grooves; and a parts inserting mechanism for inserting, at a parts insertion position, the parts from the parts housing grooves into the parts housing recessed portions.

Abstract: A culture device and a culture method by which a substance to be cultured can be three-dimensionally cultured, and the substance thus cultured can be removed as an integrated product with multiple tubes; and a cultured organ produced by the culture method. The culture device comprises a sealed container (2) which contains the substance to be cultured (A) and is disassembled after the culture is completed; multiple ducts (3, 4, 5) arranged in the sealed container (2) and having micropore formed on the outer peripheral surface; a culture medium-feeding device (6, 7) for feeding/circulating the culture medium (B) to at least one duct (3 or 5); an excretory device (8) connected to at least one duct (4) for excreting the waste product (C) permeating into the duct (4) through the micropore of the duct (4) from the substance to be cultured to the outside of the sealed container.

Abstract: The disclosed retroreflective sheet contains a retroreflective layer and a polyurethane surface protecting layer, wherein the surface protecting layer contains at least a reaction product of a polyol with either a polyester backbone or a polycarbonate backbone and a trifunctional or higher aliphatic isocyanate, and the glass transition temperature Tg of the surface protecting layer is 50° C. or higher, and the tan ? of the loss tangent at 120° C. is 0.1 or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a camshaft capable of suppressing an increase in the number of parts and the number of places to be processed, preventing scratching on a sliding surface that is a part of an outer peripheral surface of an outer shaft and on which an inner cam is rotated, and preventing occurrence of deformation in the entire camshaft after final assembly. A camshaft includes an inner cam that is attached from a radial direction of an outer shaft and that is fixed to an inner shaft with a pin inserted into the inner cam from the radial direction of the outer shaft in a cam surface of the inner cam.

Abstract: A control system for controlling a work machine including a working unit including elements and actuators that drives the elements includes: a first hydraulic pump and a second hydraulic pump each of which supplies operating oil to at least one of the actuators; and a control device that calculates a distribution flow rate of operating oil distributed to each of the actuators based on an operating state of the working unit and switches, based on the calculated distribution flow rate, between a first state in which the operating oil supplied from both the first hydraulic pump and the second hydraulic pump is supplied to the actuators and a second state in which the actuator to which the operating oil is supplied from the first hydraulic pump is different from the actuator to which the operating oil is supplied from the second hydraulic pump.

Abstract: In a heating medium channel switching device, a valve body whose interior is partitioned into two channels by a partition plate is axially rotated by a motor, whereby a relative position of the valve body in a valve chamber is controlled. Because of this, one of a first heating medium and second heating medium can be selected and caused to flow out in one channel, and one of a third heating medium and fourth heating medium can be selected and caused to flow in the other channel. Also, heating medium flow can be controlled by an angle of rotation of the valve body being controlled.

Abstract: A controller includes a first counter that counts an operating time of cutting machines in a predetermined unit and a display controller that puts the operating time that has been counted into a doughnut graph and displays the doughnut graph on the display and the display controller displays, if the operating time is less than a predetermined time, the doughnut graph in a first color on the display and displays, if the operating time is the predetermined time or more, the doughnut graph in a second color that is different from the first color on the display.

Abstract: A compound valve includes a body having a valve chamber; a cylindrical-shaped valve element having opening portions in its lateral side surface for allowing heat media to flow inside of the valve element, and a partition member there inside in the longitudinal direction; and a motor for controlling a rotation angle of the valve element, and the opening portions communicate with either one of a first heat-medium inflow port or a second heat-medium inflow port, and with either one of a third heat-medium outflow port or a fourth heat-medium outflow port; two heat media having different properties flow adjacent to the partition member; and, by controlling, by a rotation angle of the motor, areas of the communicating inflow ports and the opening portions, and those of the communicating outflow ports and the opening portions, the quantities of flow are controlled.

Abstract: An optical sensor includes a light receiving unit and a calculating unit. The light receiving unit includes a plurality of light receiving elements and a plurality of color filters. The plurality of light receiving elements include a first light receiving element and a second light receiving element through which a photocurrent flows when receiving light. The plurality of color filters include a yellow filter that covers a light receiving surface of the first light receiving element and a red filter that covers a light receiving surface of the second light receiving element. The calculating unit calculates an intensity of a yellow wavelength band based on a difference between a first output signal obtained from the photocurrent of the first light receiving element and a second output signal obtained from the photocurrent of the second light receiving element.

Abstract: A method for producing ultrafine fibers of the present invention includes forming an electric field between an discharging nozzle from which a raw resin is discharged and a charging electrode which is disposed apart from the discharging nozzle, and supplying the raw resin which has been heated and melted into the electric field from the discharging nozzle to spin the raw resin. The raw resin is a resin mixture which contains a resin having a melting point and an additive, and satisfies a relation (I) below: A/B?1.0×102 ??(I) wherein A represents the absolute value (?) of electrical impedance of the raw resin at 50° C., and B represents the absolute value (?) of electrical impedance of the raw resin at a temperature 50° C. higher than a melting point of the raw resin.