Abstract: A detecting device includes a detecting unit that detects an image on a medium transported in a transport path. The detecting unit includes a light emitter, a light receiver, and a light adjusting portion. The light emitter emits light toward the transport path in which the medium is transported. The light receiver receives reflected light of the light emitted from the light emitter. The light adjusting portion adjusts a quantity of light received by the light receiver according to a quantity of light emitted from the light emitter.

Abstract: A successive approximation register A/D converter that obtains an output of N bits interrupts operation at a timing when the operation of the successive approximation register A/D converter is affected on the basis of circuit timing in an integrated circuit. The A/D converter performs a comparison between a sampling signal and a comparison reference voltage by a sampling period in which an analog signal is sampled, a comparison period of N states in which the sampled signal is sequentially compared with a comparison voltage for each bit, and a reserve period of M states following the comparison period. When an operation is temporarily interrupted, the A/D converter performs a comparison operation of a bit, whereas the comparison is not performed in the reserve period.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a first reader member that receives light from a medium to read an image recorded on a surface thereof; a second reader member that separates the light from the medium and reads a color of the recorded image based on the separated light; a deriving unit that derives associating information that associates a first read result with a second read result based on the first read result and the second read result, the first read result being obtained by the first reader member, the second read result being obtained by the second reader member; and a measuring unit that measures the color of the image on the medium for performing color calibration by reading the medium by using the first reader member so as to determine a color corresponding to the second read result based on the first read result and the associating information.

Abstract: In a start-up method of a single shaft combined cycle power plant, during a time period from when the gas turbine is started up to when rotation speed of the gas turbine reaches a rotation speed allowing self-sustained operation using the combustion gas, auxiliary steam from the start-up boiler is fed to the low-pressure steam turbine via the low-pressure turbine steam supply pipe by controlling valve opening degree of the auxiliary steam flow control valve. The low-pressure steam turbine generates a drive force. Speed-up control is performed in a unified manner for the gas turbine, the high-pressure steam turbine, the low-pressure steam turbine, and the power generator.

Abstract: An image scanner includes: a light source that irradiates, with light, a recording medium on which an image is formed; a light receiving portion that receives light reflected by the recording medium; and a reflecting portion that has a reflecting surface for measuring the amount of specular reflection light coming from the light source, the specular reflection light being included in the light received by the light receiving portion.

Abstract: A detection apparatus includes a transmission member that is provided facing a conveying path on which a medium is conveyed and that transmits light from the medium being conveyed on the conveying path; a detection section that detects the medium or an image on the medium according to the light which is transmitted by the transmission member, wherein the light is received by a light-receiving member of the detection section; and an opposing member provided on an opposite side of the conveying path from the transmission member and having at least one opposing surface that faces the transmission member. In a conveying direction of the medium, a length of the opposing surface is shorter than a length of a detection surface.

Abstract: The image reading device includes: a reading unit that includes a light source emitting light to irradiate an image on a recording medium transported in a first direction and a light receiving portion that receives light reflected by the recording medium; a transport path forming unit that forms a part of a transport path for the recording medium; a light transmitting portion that is provided in the transport path forming unit and transmits the light; and plural projection members that are provided to the light transmitting portion so as to project from the light transmitting portion toward the transport path, and that are arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction while each extending in the first direction.

Abstract: A detecting apparatus includes: a transmission member that is provided facing a conveying path on which a medium is conveyed and that transmits light from the medium being conveyed on the conveying path; a detecting section that detects the medium or an image on the medium from the light which is transmitted through the transmission member, wherein the light is received by a light-receiving member of the detection section; an opposing member that is provided on an opposite side of the conveying path from the transmission member and has at least a first opposing surface that faces the transmission member; and a guide member provided at a downstream side of the opposing member in the conveying direction, and guides the medium downstream in the conveying path. The opposing surface is closer to the detecting section at a downstream side than at an upstream side thereof in the conveying direction.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device, an active region includes: a first impurity region to which a predetermined voltage is applied; second and third impurity regions forming a pair of conductive electrodes of an insulated gate field effect transistor; and at least one impurity region disposed between the first and second impurity regions. A voltage that causes electrical conduction between the second and third impurity regions is applied to a gate electrode disposed between the second and third impurity regions. All gate electrodes disposed between the first and second impurity regions are configured to be electrically connected to the first impurity region constantly. All impurity regions disposed between the first and second impurity regions are electrically isolated from the first and second impurity regions and maintained in a floating state.

Abstract: There is provided a detection device including: a detection section detecting an image on a medium conveyed along the conveyance path or the medium; a reference member that is disposed at an opposite side of the conveyance path from the side thereof at which the illumination unit is disposed and that is provided to be rotatable with a rotation axis direction being a width direction of the medium; a test face comprising one of reflection faces of the reference member; a position detection pattern provided at the test face; a focal point detection pattern provided at the test face, the focal point detection pattern enabling detection by the detection section of a focal point; and a depth detection portion provided at the test face, the depth detection portion enabling detection by the detection section of an illumination depth of the light illuminated from a illumination unit.

Abstract: A detection device includes: a detection member that includes an emission member emitting a beam toward a transportation direction of a transportation path and a beam receiving member receiving a reflected beam of the beam emitted from the emission member, and that detects an image on a medium; a transmissive member that allows the beam emitted from the emission member and the beam reflected from the medium to be transmitted therethrough; and a support member that has an open portion blocked by the transmissive member, and that supports an upstream end portion of the transmissive member in the transportation direction of the medium at an upstream portion of the open portion toward the medium, an edge portion of a downstream portion of the open portion in the transportation direction being located closer to the emission member than a bottom surface of the transmissive member.

Abstract: A successive approximation register A/D converter that obtains an output of N bits interrupts operation at a timing when the operation of the successive approximation register A/D converter is affected on the basis of circuit timing in an integrated circuit. The A/D converter performs a comparison between a sampling signal and a comparison reference voltage by a sampling period in which an analog signal is sampled, a comparison period of N states in which the sampled signal is sequentially compared with a comparison voltage for each bit, and a reserve period of M states following the comparison period. When an operation is temporarily interrupted, the A/D converter performs a comparison operation of a bit, whereas the comparison is not performed in the reserve period.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a light source member having a substrate extending in a predetermined main scanning direction, and light source portions releasing light and supported by the substrate in the main scanning direction; a light guide member that has an input section disposed facing the light source portions and receiving the light, and an output section outputting the light, and that guides the light toward a predetermined radiation position; a support member supporting the light source member and the light guide member and having higher rigidity than the light guide member and the substrate; a first positioning section positioning the light guide member in the main scanning direction and a sub scanning direction; a second positioning section positioning the light guide member in the sub scanning direction; and a reader member receiving the light from the radiation position so as to read an image thereof.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a first reader member that receives light from a medium to read an image recorded on a surface thereof; a second reader member that separates the light from the medium and reads a color of the recorded image based on the separated light; a deriving unit that derives associating information that associates a first read result with a second read result based on the first read result and the second read result, the first read result being obtained by the first reader member, the second read result being obtained by the second reader member; and a measuring unit that measures the color of the image on the medium for performing color calibration by reading the medium by using the first reader member so as to determine a color corresponding to the second read result based on the first read result and the associating information.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a first reader member, an optical system, and a second reader member. The first reader member reads an image recorded on a surface of a medium traveling through a predetermined read area by receiving light from the medium. The read area is set on a transport path along which the medium is transported. The optical system guides the light from the medium to the first reader member. The second reader member has a color measurement unit disposed on an optical path of the light guided by the optical system and performing color measurement on the light. The second reader member reads a color of the image recorded on the surface of the medium on the basis of the light. The second reader member reads a color of an image in a predetermined second area included in the read area read by the first reader member.

Abstract: A reference voltage generating circuit that accurately corrects temperature characteristics of a BGR (bandgap reference) circuit and a regulator. A voltage dividing circuit outputs first and second voltages obtained by dividing a BGR voltage. The regulator includes a differential amplifier, first and second resisters coupled in series between the output terminal of the differential amplifier and the ground. The positive input terminal of the differential amplifier receives the BGR voltage, and the negative input terminal is coupled to a coupled node between third and fourth resistors. The BGR circuit outputs a third voltage varying with a temperature determined by a predetermined amount of current flowing in the BGR circuit and a predetermined resistor. A temperature-characteristics correcting circuit controls a correcting current flowing through the coupled node so that its magnitude varies with the difference between the first and third voltages, and the difference between the second and third voltages.

Abstract: A reference voltage generating circuit that accurately corrects temperature characteristics of a BGR (bandgap reference) circuit and a regulator. A voltage dividing circuit outputs first and second voltages obtained by dividing a BGR voltage. The regulator includes a differential amplifier, first and second resisters coupled in series between the output terminal of the differential amplifier and the ground. The positive input terminal of the differential amplifier receives the BGR voltage, and the negative input terminal is coupled to a coupled node between third and fourth resistors. The BGR circuit outputs a third voltage varying with a temperature determined by a predetermined amount of current flowing in the BGR circuit and a predetermined resistor. A temperature-characteristics correcting circuit controls a correcting current flowing through the coupled node so that its magnitude varies with the difference between the first and third voltages, and the difference between the second and third voltages.

Abstract: The reading apparatus is provided with: an optical image forming unit that forms an optical image on a recording medium by irradiating, with light, the recording medium on which an image is formed and which is transported in a slow scan direction; a reading unit that reads a position in a fast scan direction of the image formed on the recording medium transported in the slow scan direction and a position in a fast scan direction of the optical image, by using a minification optical system; and a registration correction unit that corrects a registration error in the fast scan direction of the image read by the reading unit, by using the position in the fast scan direction of the optical image read by the reading unit.

Abstract: A hair dye composition containing an organic compound having not more than 4 carbon atoms, which has both of a —SH group and a —NH2 group and does not have a —COOH group, and also containing at least one member selected from aromatic compounds in which given substituents are each attached to meta positions of a mononuclear benzene ring structure and ?-naphthol as a coupler of an oxidation dye intermediate, in which the blending amount of each member as the coupler is in a range from 0.01 to 0.5% by mass. An oxidation hair dye composition containing the hair dye composition. Wherein the hair dye composition and the oxidation hair dye composition are capable of preventing a change in the color tone of the hair dyeing even during long-term storage are provided.

Abstract: A detection apparatus includes a transmission member that is provided facing a conveying path on which a medium is conveyed and that transmits light from the medium being conveyed on the conveying path; a detection section that detects the medium or an image on the medium according to the light which is transmitted by the transmission member, wherein the light is received by a light-receiving member of the detection section; and an opposing member provided on an opposite side of the conveying path from the transmission member and having at least one opposing surface that faces the transmission member. In a conveying direction of the medium, a length of the opposing surface is shorter than a length of a detection surface.