Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes an aggregate-side interface unit coupled to an optical transmission line, a cross-connect unit which performs cross-connect with respect to a synchronized digital signal supplied from the aggregate-side interface unit, and a network signal processing unit which switches the synchronized digital signal in a unit of a network signal as the synchronized digital signal is supplied from the cross-connect unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that communicates with an external apparatus via a network is provided with a management unit, an obtaining unit, a discrimination unit, and a changing unit. The management unit manages fixed information and variable information of the external apparatus. The obtaining means obtains the fixed information and the variable information from the external apparatus via the network. The discrimination unit discriminates whether the obtained fixed information coincides with the managed fixed information, and discriminates whether the obtained variable information coincides with the managed variable information. If it is discriminated that the obtained fixed information coincides with the managed fixed information, but the obtained variable information does not coincide with the managed variable information, then the changing unit changes a setting of a control program for controlling the external information processing apparatus.

Abstract: An electrodeposition coating composition that is excellent in bath stability and that can give a cured film enhanced in hardness and an electrodeposition coating process is provided. An electrodeposition coating composition to be used in an electrodeposition coating process which comprises the electrodeposition step of immersing a substrate in an electrodeposition coating composition and applying a voltage between the substrate as an anode or cathode and a counter electrode to thereby form a film of said electrodeposition coating composition on the surface of the substrate, and the heating step of heating said film obtained in the above electrodeposition step, and said electrodeposition coating composition comprising having electrodeposition potentiality against the curing reaction of said film.

Abstract: To easily provide services in response to service requests from client apparatuses on a network, a service providing system includes a client (100), printer (200), and server (300) connected to the network. In executing a job, the client (100) notifies the printer (200) of the first service content required for the job. The printer (200) determines whether it can process alone the first service content notified from the client (100). If the first service content cannot be processed alone, the printer (200) searches for the server (300), on the network, which can process the second service content required to execute the job.

Abstract: A network-capable device stores an address of another device. The network-capable device determines whether or not a connected network has been changed. If it has not been changed, then an address other than the address of the other device stored is determined as an address of the apparatus.

Abstract: A ceramic condenser module includes at least one first multi-layered ceramic condenser and at least one second multi-layered ceramic condenser, which are mounted to a front surface and a back surface of a substrate, respectively. When a total surface area of the outside surfaces of the mounted first and second multi-layered ceramic condensers excluding surfaces thereof opposing the substrate is defined as S2, and a total equal to S2 and a surface area of the outside surface of the substrate excluding the area covered by the first and second multi-layered ceramic condensers is defined as S1, S1 is equal to or greater than about 1.3 times S2. With this arrangement, the ceramic condenser module is suitable for use with large amounts of current, has excellent heat-dissipation effect, is much smaller and much less expensive.

Abstract: The present invention eliminates a need to install, on a computer, special driver software for controlling a network-enabled device to be used as well as a need to set network information on the driver software.

Abstract: An inverter capacitor module includes a plurality of substrates having a plurality of ceramic capacitors provided on the top surfaces thereof, and first and second feeding unit lands having conductive films provided on both surfaces thereof and arranged to feed the plurality of ceramic capacitors, the first and second feeding unit lands on both surfaces thereof being electrically connected to each other, a conductive spacer inserted between the plurality of substrates for establishing one of an electrical connection between the first feeding unit lands of an underlying substrate and its overlying substrate and an electrical connection between the second feeding unit lands of an underlying substrate and its overlying substrate, a fixing member arranged to fix the plurality of substrates laminated via the conductive spacer, and a switching module fixed below the bottom substrate among the plurality of substrates that are laminated.

Abstract: A drive apparatus for an electromagnetic drive type actuator, which includes a movable element, a fixed element, a connection element, a magnetic field generation element, and a drive coil, such that the movable element is caused to oscillate by an interaction between a current flowing through the drive coil and a magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generation element, comprises a drive signal supply element, which supplies to the drive coil a current signal with a periodic waveform that has a frequency substantially equal to a resonance frequency of the movable element and whose current value is zero in a fixed period in one cycle, and an oscillation detection element, which detects an oscillation state based on a timing of a zero-cross point of a voltage waveform between both ends of the drive coil in a period corresponding to the period in which the current value is zero.

Abstract: A mechanism for enabling a computer which includes an installer for providing Plug and Play (PnP) to obtain information for a network device is provided. Using an existing development resource, such as a PnP installer, a simple installation method is provided. By causing a proxy server to as a communication intermediary between the computer and a peripheral device which is not in compliance with a predetermined management method, the peripheral device can be managed using the predetermined management method.

Abstract: A process for cationic electrodeposition coating which comprises the steps of: (1) immersing a substrate in a cationic electrodeposition coating composition: (2) applying a voltage between an anode and said substrate, which serves as a cathode, to thereby cause coat film deposition; and (3) further applying a voltage to the coat film deposited so as to increase electric resistance per unit volume of said coat film, wherein, in said step (3), coat films are deposited at those sites of the substrate where coat films have not yet been deposited, said cationic electrodeposition coating composition having a time point when the electric resistance per unit volume of the coat film deposited increases in the course of electrodeposition under constant-current conditions.

Abstract: A ceramic condenser module includes at least one first multi-layered ceramic condenser and at least one second multi-layered ceramic condenser, which are mounted to a front surface and a back surface of a substrate, respectively. When a total surface area of the outside surfaces of the mounted first and second multi-layered ceramic condensers excluding surfaces thereof opposing the substrate is defined as S2, and a total equal to S2 and a surface area of the outside surface of the substrate excluding the area covered by the first and second multi-layered ceramic condensers is defined as S1, S1 is equal to or greater than about 1.3 times S2. With this arrangement, the ceramic condenser module is suitable for use with large amounts of current, has excellent heat-dissipation effect, is much smaller and much less expensive.

Abstract: An ink jet textile printing method forms an image on cloths in an image forming operation by repeating a step of applying ink on the cloths from an ink discharge port of a recording head, the recording head relatively main-scanning to form the image in a main scan direction, and a step of relatively conveying the cloths in a sub-scan direction. The method includes the steps of forming the image on the cloths by applying ink on the cloths from the recording head based on image data. The method further includes the step of temporarily stopping the image forming operation in accordance with an indication to effect a temporary halt of the image forming operation. When the temporary halt is indicated while the recording head performs a main scan in the image forming operation, the image forming operation by the main scan is completed, and then the temporary halt of the image forming operation is effected by moving the recording head to a standby position.

Abstract: An electrodeposition coating composition that is excellent in bath stability and that can give a cured film enhanced in hardness and an electrodeposition coating process is provided.

Abstract: An inverter capacitor module includes a plurality of substrates having a plurality of ceramic capacitors provided on the top surfaces thereof, and first and second feeding unit lands having conductive films provided on both surfaces thereof and arranged to feed the plurality of ceramic capacitors, the first and second feeding unit lands on both surfaces thereof being electrically connected to each other, a conductive spacer inserted between the plurality of substrates for establishing one of an electrical connection between the first feeding unit lands of an underlying substrate and its overlying substrate and an electrical connection between the second feeding unit lands of an underlying substrate and its overlying substrate, a fixing member arranged to fix the plurality of substrates laminated via the conductive spacer, and a switching module fixed below the bottom substrate among the plurality of substrates that are laminated.

Abstract: Disclosed is a network information management unit in which a memory resource that requires the storage of a network information management database is utilized in distributed fashion, as a result of which a single agent need not be equipped with a large-scale memory. The management unit, which is connected to a network and mounted on a network-capable image processing device capable of being shared by a plurality of clients, is constituted by a plurality of agents distributed on a plurality of logically independent controllers that construct the image processing device. Each of the plurality of agents has means for communicating with one another, and means for generating a network management information response to a network management information request, which has been issued by a network information manager, after each agent has processed the network management information request in distributed fashion.

Abstract: On the basis of control information of an image received from an external device via an external parallel interface, a frame memory control unit stores image data, which has been transferred from the external device, in a band memory B obtained by partitioning a frame memory into band memories A and B. The frame memory control unit subjects the image stored in the band memory B to image processing based upon the received control information, stores the processed results in the band memory A and then sends image data, which is obtained by image-processing the stored results, to a printer or to the external device. Accordingly, highly sophisticated image processing can be achieved with a minimal memory capacity.

Abstract: An ink jet textile printing apparatus for performing printing by reading an original image created by a designer, converting the original image into original data represented by an electric signal, retrieving the original data for processing to be output as image data, and recording data on cloth based on the image data. The ink jet textile printing apparatus has a first ink jet recording head provided upstream of a recording position, and a second ink jet recording head provided downstream thereof, and is provided with a drying unit located between the recording heads, whereby high-quality recorded images with less bleeding can be obtained by recording on a recording area again with the second ink jet recording head after drying the recording area on the cloth recorded by the first ink jet recording head with the drying unit.

Abstract: A cation electrodeposition coating process and cation electrodeposition coating composition that have a sufficient throwing power are provided. A process for cationic electrodeposition coating which comprises the steps of:(1) immersing a substrate in a cationic electrodeposition coating composition;(2) applying a voltage between an anode and the substrate, which serves as a cathode, to thereby cause coat film deposition; and(3) further applying a voltage to the coat film deposited so as to increase electric resistance per unit volume of the coat film,wherein, in step (3), coat films are deposited at those sites of the substrate where coat films have not yet been deposited, the cationic electrodeposition coating composition having a time point when the electric resistance per unit volume of the coat film deposited increases in the course of electrodeposition under constant-current conditions.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus provided with plural output devices, there is achieved efficient image data output without interference of the plural output devices. For this purpose, there are provided input means for entering image data, plural memory means for storing the entered image data, control means for controlling the plural memories respectively corresponding to plural image output devices, and output means for sending the image data from the memories to the plural output devices.