Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of storing or transferring an image along with an image-processing parameter for processing the image. When storing or transferring a second image for storage or transfer which has a second resolution for storage or transfer differing from a reference resolution, a reference image-processing parameter set according to a reference resolution image having the reference resolution is corrected based on a difference between the reference resolution and the second resolution, so that it becomes a second parameter corresponding to the second image. The second parameter obtained by the correction is stored or transferred along with the second image.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming device capable of forming high-quality images and affording high-precision rotating shaft parallelism between surface mobile bodies, and a unit position adjustment method for adjusting the position of a surface mobile body unit relative to the main body of the image forming device. The image forming device includes a front fixing guide plate as a unit support member for fixing, to a front plate of a structure, a fixing unit serving as a surface mobile body unit which includes a fixing roller being a surface mobile body, and an upper portion eccentric cam and a horizontal portion eccentric cam serving as a unit position adjustment member for adjusting the position of the front fixing guide plate relative to the front plate.

Abstract: An in-wheel suspension including a vehicle body-side member (90). The vehicle body-side member (90) is coupled with a vehicle body at least two coupling portions (92a, 92b, 92c), one of which is positioned above a wheel center and the other of which is positioned below the wheel center, via respective elastic members (96a, 96b, 96c). The elastic member (96b) arranged at the upper coupling portion (92b) has portions with high rigidity, and portions with low rigidity formed in an oblique direction that extends upward and toward an inside of a vehicle from a position outside of the vehicle. The elastic member (96a, 96c) arranged at the lower coupling portion (92a, 92c) has portions with high rigidity, and portions with low rigidity formed in an oblique direction that extends downward and toward the inside of the vehicle from a position outside of the vehicle.

Abstract: In an apparatus for suppressing noise in an input image signal representing a radiographic image: at least one first characteristic of the input image signal is obtained by calculation based on information indicating an exposure dose with which the radiographic image has been produced; at least one second characteristic of a smoothing filter is adapted to the input image signal based on the at least one first characteristic; and the input image signal is processed by using the smoothing filter so as to smooth the radiographic image. In addition, a plurality of band-limited image signals respectively representing a plurality of band-limited images belonging to a plurality of different frequency bands are generated based on the input image signal, each of the plurality of band-limited image signals is processed by using the smoothing filter so as to smooth each of the plurality of band-limited images.

Abstract: An in-wheel suspension including a tire/wheel assembly-side member that includes a tire/wheel assembly support member fixed to a tire/wheel assembly, a vehicle body-side member that supports the tire/wheel assembly support member such that the tire/wheel assembly support member can slide along a sliding axis X extending in the substantially vertical direction and rotate on the sliding axis X, and at least one of a spring element and an attenuation element that acts in accordance with sliding of the tire/wheel assembly support member. The in-wheel suspension further includes a coupling member that couples the tire/wheel assembly-side member with the vehicle body-side member, and that rotates the tire/wheel assembly support member in accordance with the sliding of the tire/wheel assembly support member.

Abstract: This invention relates to processes for the production of optically active 2-(disubstituted aryl)cyclopropylamine compounds and optically active 2-(disubstituted aryl)cyclopropane carboxamide compounds which are useful intermediates for the preparation of pharmaceutical agents, and in particular the compound [1S-(1?,2?,3?(1S*,2R*),5?)]-3-[7-[2-(3,4-difluorophenyl)-cyclopropyl]amino]-5-(propylthio)-3H-1,2,3-triazolo[4,5-d]pyrimidin-3-yl)-5-(2-hydroxyethoxy)-cyclopentane-1,2-diol.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an imaging unit for black and imaging units for other colors, a writing unit for black and a writing unit for other colors, a first heater corresponding to the imaging unit and the writing unit for black color, and a second heater corresponding to the imaging units and the writing unit for other colors. Turning ON/OFF of each of the first heater and the second heater are controlled separately. Thus, the first heater can be ON while the second heater is OFF.

Abstract: A steam turbine plant partially utilizes a hydrocarbon fuel such as an LNG as a fuel to improve the efficiency of the plant. A steam turbine plant includes a boiler, a steam turbine, a feedwater system, and a superheating combustor. The boiler generates steam, and the steam turbine is driven by the steam generated in the boiler. The feedwater system recovers the steam exhausted from the steam turbine and supplies the steam to the boiler as a feedwater. The superheating combustor is provided between the boiler and the steam turbine, wherein fuel originated from hydrocarbon fuel and oxidizer are mixed with the steam generated in the boiler and combusted in the superheating combustor to increase the temperature of the steam.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a fixing device to fix a toner image by heat, a discharging tray to accommodating a sheet fixed toner image at the fixing device, a sheet feeding device including a sheet discharging roller to discharge the sheet and positioned downstream of the fixing device, and a sheet cooling device to cool the sheet fixed toner image. The sheet cooling device is located along the direction in which the sheets are stacked and is close to the sheet discharging device. Blocking from adhesion of sheets to each other by melting toner may be prevented by cooling the discharged sheet efficiently after the fixing.

Abstract: A fuel assembly includes a bottom nozzle set on a lower core plate of a nuclear reactor, a top nozzle with a hold down spring to urge the bottom nozzle against the lower core plate, guide thimbles which guide control rods, having passed through the top nozzle, toward the lower core plate, a dashpot formed on each of the guide thimbles to reduce the fall velocity of a corresponding one of the control rods, a thimble screw which connects each of the guide thimbles to the bottom nozzle, and a drain hole formed to extend through each of the thimble screw. The dashpot has a large-diameter portion with substantially the same diameter as that of each of the guide thimbles. The diameter d of the drain hole falls within a range of 0.04 D<d<0.08 D where D is an inner diameter of the large-diameter portion.

Abstract: A fuel assembly includes a bottom nozzle set on a lower core plate of a nuclear reactor, a top nozzle with a hold down spring to urge the bottom nozzle against the lower core plate, guide thimbles which guide control rods, having passed through the top nozzle, toward the lower core plate, a dashpot formed on each of the guide thimbles to reduce the fall velocity of a corresponding one of the control rods, a thimble screw which connects each of the guide thimbles to the bottom nozzle, and a drain hole formed to extend through each of the thimble screw. The dashpot has a large-diameter portion with substantially the same diameter as that of each of the guide thimbles. The diameter d of the drain hole falls within a range of 0.04D<d<0.08D where D is an inner diameter of the large-diameter portion.

Abstract: To provide a PTFE laminated article having a sufficient adhesive strength and a PTFE backing sheet having a low permeability, in which a specific weight of a PTFE sheet can be maintained high. A specific weight of the PTFE sheet is maintained at 2.175 or more by carrying out thermo-fusing of the PTFE sheet and a film or sheet of heat-meltable resin such as PFA after interposing a layer of PTFE fine particles between them or by carrying out treatment for preventing a rapid temperature lowering after the thermo-fusing without interposing the layer of PTFE fine particles.

Abstract: Radiation-image information is input from a radiation-image measuring apparatus to a measurement-information storing section, and measurement information, which consists of the positional information of a measuring point and a result of measurement based on the positional information, is also input from the radiation-image measuring apparatus to the measurement-information storing section. The measurement information is related to the radiation-image information by the measurement-information storing section and is stored in a storage medium.

Abstract: In an image processing method for obtaining a processed image signal from an original image signal representing an original image having a certain picture element density, a plurality of intermediate image signals which are different in frequency band are made on the basis of the original image signal. A plurality of transformed image signals are obtained by carrying out a transformation processing on the respective intermediate image signals on the basis of respective transformation functions, and a processed image signal is obtained from the transformed image signals. The transformation functions are defined by determining transformation function defining parameters for the transformation functions on the basis of the picture element density of the original image.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming device capable of forming high-quality images and affording high-precision rotating shaft parallelism between surface mobile bodies, and a unit position adjustment method for adjusting the position of a surface mobile body unit relative to the main body of the image forming device. The image forming device comprises a front fixing guide plate as a unit support member for fixing, to a front plate of a structure, a fixing unit serving as a surface mobile body unit which comprises a fixing roller being a surface mobile body, and an upper portion eccentric cam and a horizontal portion eccentric cam serving as a unit position adjustment member for adjusting the position of the front fixing guide plate relative to the front plate.

Abstract: In an image processing method for obtaining a processed image signal from an original image signal representing an original image having a certain picture element density, a plurality of intermediate image signals which are different in frequency band are made on the basis of the original image signal. A plurality of transformed image signals are obtained by carrying out a transformation processing on the respective intermediate image signals on the basis of respective transformation functions, and a processed image signal is obtained from the transformed image signals. The transformation functions are defined by determining transformation function defining parameters for the transformation functions on the basis of the picture element density of the original image.

Abstract: An input of an evaluation object image signal representing an evaluation object image with respect to a pattern composed of a plurality of evaluating regions, in each of which at least one signal area is located at a predetermined position, is accepted. The evaluating regions have been set such that a size and contrast of the signal area vary by stages for different evaluating regions. The positions of the signal areas, which are located in all of the evaluating regions in the evaluation object image, are detected in accordance with a reference image signal, which represents a reference image with respect to the pattern, and the evaluation object image signal. The evaluation object image is evaluated in accordance with the results of the detection of the positions of the signal areas.

Abstract: A device to support studies of the positions in which parts necessary for assembly are placed and the positions in which assembly tasks are performed. A manufacturing study support device has a computation portion, a display portion which displays animations, and a storage portion which stores part animation data comprising three-dimensional shapes of parts, part storage positions which are three-dimensional coordinate data of positions at which the parts are stored, and assembly starting positions which are three-dimensional coordinate data of positions from which assembly tasks using the parts are started. The computation portion calculates part supply animation paths, taking the part storage positions as starting points and the assembly starting positions as ending points, and based on the part animation data and part supply animation paths, causes the display portion to display movement of the parts.

Abstract: A printer having an opening/closing cover for providing access to a roll paper compartment, a peeler mechanism for peeling printed labels from a web and for dispensing the peeled printed labels from the printer and an opening and closing mechanism 50 which locks and unlocks the cover and a peeler unit 10 of the peeler mechanism in response to the manual operation of a manual operating member such as a release button 17 with a single easy operation. When the release button 17 is depressed into a first operating position 17B, a lock lever 52 of the opening/closing mechanism 50 slides from a locked position 52A to a released position 52B to disengage the lock lever 52 thus unlocking the opening/closing cover 9. At the same time, the sliding lock lever 52 pushes engaging claws 74a, 73a that lock or unlocks the peeler unit 10.

Abstract: A printer with a peeler mechanism 1 for peeling labels from a web, the printer having a movable web pressure roller 24 which may be moved from a web pressure position 24A in which pressure is applied to a platen roller 20 to a retracted position 24B in which pressure is not applied. The printer also has a photosensor 21 and photoreceptor having an emitter/receptor surface 21a for detecting the presence and absence of labels peeled from the web. A window 22b in the label guide surface 22a becomes covered to shield the photosensor output for defining a no-label detection stateWhether the peeler mechanism is set to operate in the label peeling mode or is set to a retracted position defining a non-peeling continuous label dispensing mode of operation can be determined based on the output of the label detection photosensor 21, and the label dispensing mode can be set to the label peeling mode or continuous label dispensing mode based on this determination.