Abstract: A layer transfer device includes a housing main body having an opening, a cover movable between an open position in which the opening is open and a closed position in which the opening is closed, a heating member provided in the housing main body and configured to heat a multilayer film and a sheet, a pressure member provided on the cover and configured to nip the multilayer film and a sheet laid on the multilayer film between the heating member and the pressure member, and a shutter movable between a protecting position in which the heating member is covered with the shutter, and a retreated position in which the shutter is away from the protecting position. The shutter is in the protecting position when the cover is in the open position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a main casing; a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis extending in a first direction; a developing cartridge; a transfer unit; a solvent cartridge accommodating solvent for dissolving toner; an applicator applying the solvent to the toner on a sheet; and a cover movable between an open position and a closed position. The developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are detachably attachable to the main casing independently of each other. The developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are positioned between the applicator and the cover in a second direction crossing the first direction, and the solvent cartridge is positioned closer to the applicator than the developing cartridge is to the applicator in a state where the developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are attached to the main casing and the cover is at the closed position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a casing having an opening; a developing cartridge configured to accommodate toner therein; and a drum cartridge to which the developing cartridge is attachable. The drum cartridge is attachable to the casing through the opening in a state where the developing cartridge is attached to the drum cartridge. The drum cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum; a drum frame; a charge roller; a cleaning blade configured to clean a circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum; a waste toner collecting unit having an internal space allowing waste toner removed from the circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum by the cleaning blade to be collected therein; a waste toner accumulating unit having an internal space allowing the waste toner to be accumulated therein; and a waste toner conveying unit configured to convey the waste toner from the waste toner collecting unit to the waste toner accumulating unit.

Abstract: A sheet supplying apparatus includes a supplying roller, a supply tray, and a lifting/lowering member having a protrusion. The pressure plate includes a pressure plate body and a contact member supported by the pressure plate body so as to be movable between a first position and a second position. The contact member is pushed up and lowered with the pressure plate body while being in contact with the protrusion at the first position in a state in which the protrusion is placed below the pressure plate body. The contact member moves to the second position at which the contact member is escaped from the lifting/lowering member when the protrusion moves from a position higher than the pressure plate toward a position lower than the pressure plate. The contact member moves to the first position when the lifting/lowering member moves to the position lower than the pressure plate.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a main casing; a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis extending in a first direction; a developing cartridge; a transfer unit; a solvent cartridge accommodating solvent for dissolving toner; an applicator applying the solvent to the toner on a sheet; and a cover movable between an open position and a closed position. The developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are detachably attachable to the main casing independently of each other. The developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are positioned between the applicator and the cover in a second direction crossing the first direction, and the solvent cartridge is positioned closer to the applicator than the developing cartridge is to the applicator in a state where the developing cartridge and the solvent cartridge are attached to the main casing and the cover is at the closed position.

Abstract: A layer transfer device includes a housing main body having an opening, a cover movable between an open position in which the opening is open and a closed position in which the opening is closed, a heating member provided in the housing main body and configured to heat a multilayer film and a sheet, a pressure member provided on the cover and configured to nip the multilayer film and a sheet laid on the multilayer film between the heating member and the pressure member, and a shutter movable between a protecting position in which the heating member is covered with the shutter, and a retreated position in which the shutter is away from the protecting position. The shutter is in the protecting position when the cover is in the open position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a casing having an opening; a developing cartridge configured to accommodate toner therein; and a drum cartridge to which the developing cartridge is attachable. The drum cartridge is attachable to the casing through the opening in a state where the developing cartridge is attached to the drum cartridge. The drum cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum; a drum frame; a charge roller; a cleaning blade configured to clean a circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum; a waste toner collecting unit having an internal space allowing waste toner removed from the circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum by the cleaning blade to be collected therein; a waste toner accumulating unit having an internal space allowing the waste toner to be accumulated therein; and a waste toner conveying unit configured to convey the waste toner from the waste toner collecting unit to the waste toner accumulating unit.

Abstract: A road structure, an asphalt layer of which is peeled off by electromagnetic induction heating, includes a non-thermoplastic base layer, an asphalt layer located above the base layer, a conductive sheet between the base layer and the asphalt layer, a first bonding layer that bonds the conductive sheet and the base layer; and a second bonding layer that bonds the conductive sheet and the asphalt layer. The conductive sheet is configured to generate heat based on electromagnetic induction. At least the first bonding layer is a thermoplastic bonding layer configured to be softened by the heat.

Abstract: A road structure, an asphalt layer of which is peeled off by electromagnetic induction heating, includes a non-thermoplastic base layer, an asphalt layer located above the base layer, a conductive sheet between the base layer and the asphalt layer, a first bonding layer that bonds the conductive sheet and the base layer; and a second bonding layer that bonds the conductive sheet and the asphalt layer. The conductive sheet is configured to generate heat based on electromagnetic induction. At least the first bonding layer is a thermoplastic bonding layer configured to be softened by the heat.

Abstract: A liquid-mixing device that minimizes solvent leakage and reduces creep of or damage to the component parts of said liquid-mixing device even at ultrahigh pressures of 100 MPa and up. Also, a liquid chromatography device using said liquid-mixing device. Said liquid chromatography device is provided with a supply pump that supplies a plurality of different solutions, a liquid-mixing device that mixes the supplied solutions, a sample injection device that injects a sample into the mixture of solutions, a column that separates the components of the injected sample, and a detector that detects the separated components. The liquid-mixing device has an inlet-side connector through which the plurality of different solutions flow in, a liquid-mixing section in which said solutions are mixed, and an outflow-side connector through which the mixed solutions flow out.

Abstract: A liquid-mixing device that minimizes solvent leakage and reduces creep of or damage to the component parts of said liquid-mixing device even at ultrahigh pressures of 100 MPa and up. Also, a liquid chromatography device using said quid-mixing device. Said liquid chromatography device is provided with a supply pump that supplies a plurality of different solutions, a liquid-mixing device that mixes the supplied solutions, a sample injection device that injects a sample into the mixture of solutions, a column that separates the components of the injected sample, and a detector that detects the separated components. The liquid-mixing device has an inlet-side connector through which the plurality of different solutions flow in, a liquid-mixing section in which said solutions are mixed, and an outflow-side connector through which the mixed solutions flow out.

Abstract: A metal vapor discharge lamp having a highly reliable sealed portion. The lamp has an arc tube including a discharge portion of translucent ceramic in which a discharge metal is filled and a pair of electrodes is disposed; small tubular portions coupled to both ends of the discharge portion; feeder bodies inserted into the small tubular portions; and a sealing material sealing the gap between the feeder body and the small tubular portion at the end portion opposite to the discharge portion. The end of the small tubular portions and the inner surface of the discharge portion define a discharge space. The feeder bodies are composed of a conductive cermet and connected to the electrodes. The ends of the feeder bodies extend at least to the ends of the small tubular portions. The temperature of the end of the sealing material on the discharge space side during the lamp operation is not more than 800° C.

Abstract: A metal vapor discharge lamp comprises a discharge tube having a ceramic container into which a pair of electrodes and a discharge metal compound are sealed. The container comprises a first cylindrical portion, tapered portions, second cylindrical portions and third cylindrical portions. The third cylindrical portions are shrinkage-fitted to the second cylindrical portions. The electrodes are attached to the third cylindrical portion with a sealing member. An inner wall of the third cylindrical portions and the electrodes define a gap. The inner surface of the tapered portions and a central axis of the electrodes define an angle of 40°-80°. Thus, a metal vapor discharge lamp is provided whose discharge tube does not include disks among its parts, and which can maintain, over a long period of operation, good operating characteristics that depend only little on the lamp orientation.

Abstract: A metal halide lamp comprises a discharge tube of transparent ceramic in which a discharge metal is sealed, the discharge tube having a main cylindrical portion, ring portions provided at both ends of the main cylindrical portion, and tubular cylindrical portions provided at the ring portions; and a pair of electrodes inside the discharge tube; wherein a wall thickness .alpha. (in mm) of the main cylindrical portion satisfies the relation0.0023.times.W+0.22.ltoreq..alpha..ltoreq.0.0023.times.W+0.62,and a wall thickness .beta. (in mm) of the ring portion satisfies the relation0.0094.times.W+0.5.ltoreq..beta..ltoreq.0.0094.times.W+1.5,wherein W is the lamp power expressed in Watt. Alternatively, the discharge tube is air-tightly enclosed in the outer tube; the outer tube is filled with a gas comprising nitrogen gas; and the wall thickness .alpha. (in mm) of the main cylindrical portion satisfies the relation0.0023.times.W+0.12.ltoreq..alpha..ltoreq.0.0023.times.W+0.62,and the wall thickness .beta.

Abstract: A tablet packing apparatus of the present invention have a tablet feeding section 2 for feeding tablets, tablet vessel feeding sections 3 for feeding tablet vessels 11, and a tablet packing section 4 for packing tablets fed from the tablet feeding section 2, into a tablet vessel 11 fed from the tablet vessel feeding sections 3. The tablet feeding section comprises a plurality of feeder vessels 36 for storing different types of tablets and a tablet conveyor 27 for conveying the tablets discharged from the feeder vessels 36, to the tablet packing section 4. In the apparatus, the following restoring process is executed. After the apparatus is stopped due to abnormality, the tablets remaining in the guide paths 31 and the tablets conveyor means 27 are conveyed to the tablet packing section 4 by the tablets conveyor means 27 to recover them into the tablet vessel 11 and then the tablet vessel 11 is transferred to the container chamber 6 of the storage shelves 1.

Abstract: A metal halide lamp of the present invention has a ceramic discharge tube and a proximity conductor disposed adjacent to the ceramic discharge tube.

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing an image display apparatus capable of displaying both a television signal and an image signal supplied from a personal computer with a high picture quality on a high definition display unit having 1024 by 768 pixels. In order to achieve this object, an image display apparatus according to the present invention includes an NTSC-VGA conversion circuit for converting a television signal to a signal having 640 by 480 pixels and corresponding to the non-interlacing VGA standard, a switch unit for selecting and outputting either the signal outputted from the NTSC-VGA conversion circuit and an inputted image signal from a personal computer, and a VGA-XGA conversion circuit for converting a number of pixels of a signal outputted from the switch unit to a number of pixels 1024 by 768 substantially equivalent to the number of the display unit.

Abstract: A modular television apparatus including a video display module, a tuner module, and a power supply module, the modules being releasably combinable in a variety of combinations. The tuner module is provided with a switch for controlling a supply of power supply voltage from the power supply module to the remaining modules. The tuner module has a casing including an elongated recess into which a telescopic antenna can be stored, the recess conforming to the shape of the antenna. Switches are disposed within the recess, some of the switches having an exposed surface that conforms to the contour of the recess. The video display module is provided with a circuit for controlling the supply of power to other circuits according to detection of input of audio/video signals to the display modules.

Abstract: An industrial robot comprising: a base; a stand rigidly erected on the base; a shoulder securely mounted on the stand; a first arm consisting of upper and lower levers with the base portion pivoted to the shoulder so that the arm can be turned about a first vertical axis; a second arm having its one end pivoted to the other end of the first arm between the upper and lower levers so that the second arm can be turned about a second vertical axis; a vertically movable shaft so supported by the second arm as to allow the linear movement of the shaft along a third vertical axis; a rack parallel to the vertically movable shaft; a guide means for guiding the rack relative to the second arm in only the vertical direction; a coupling means for connecting the vertically movable shaft and the rack at their both ends; a first drive means secured to the shoulder to rotate, through a first power transmission means, the first arm about the first vertical axis; a second drive means secured to the shoulder to rotate, through