Abstract: In an infant care apparatus according to this invention, heat rays are radiated from a heat radiation opening of a heater to a bed. The direction of the heat radiation opening can be changed from the first state in which the heat radiation opening substantially faces the bed to the second state in which the heat radiation opening does not substantially face the bed. According to the infant care apparatus of this invention, when the heater is not used, there is no possibility that the remaining heat of the heater is transferred to the infant laying on the bed. There is therefore no possibility that the infant will be unnecessarily overheated. There is no need to operate the heater and the like of the infant care apparatus in such a manner that the infant lying on the bed and surrounding people have feelings that rough operation is performed. This will keep the infant and the surrounding people free from adverse effects in terms of mental health.

Abstract: In an infant care apparatus according to this invention, the inner surface of an upper reflecting plate portion of a reflector forms a reflecting surface extending substantially parallel to the axial direction of a rod-like heat generator. A first angle at which a rear end of the reflecting surface as an end portion on a side opposite to the center of an infant mat, when seen from the top, of a direction perpendicular to the axial direction is bent downward with respect to a center in a back-and-forth direction of the reflecting surface, which is developed substantially flat, is larger than a second angle at which a front end of the reflecting surface as an end opposite to the rear end is bent downward with respect to the center of the reflecting surface.

Abstract: A printing device comprises a communication unit which executes communication with a mail server on a network, a connection unit to which a portable storage medium storing setting information can be connected, a printing unit which executes printing, and a control unit which executes a mail printing process of acquiring a specified e-mail from the mail server via the communication unit by use of the setting information stored in the portable storage medium connected to the connection unit and executing printing based on the acquired e-mail with the printing unit.

Abstract: A printing device comprises a communication unit which executes communication with a mail server on a network, a connection unit to which a portable storage medium can be connected, a printing unit which executes printing, and a control unit which executes a mail acquisition process of acquiring an e-mail including a body and an attached file from the mail server via the communication unit, printing the body with the printing unit, and storing the attached file in a portable storage medium connected to the connection unit.

Abstract: There is provided a computer-readable medium having an installer stored thereon and readable by a peripheral device control apparatus that controls a peripheral device, the installer, when executed by the peripheral device control apparatus, causes the peripheral device control apparatus to install a program for the peripheral device control apparatus. The installer includes a retrieval unit that retrieves an installed program installed on the peripheral device control apparatus to utilize the peripheral device, an acquisition unit that acquires a documentary information on the peripheral device corresponding to the installed program retrieved by the retrieval unit, and an installation unit that installs the documentary information acquired by the acquisition unit on the peripheral device control apparatus, on which the installed program is installed.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention can include a display control for a dialog box to be displayed on a display device, which includes determining if voice reading software for making pronunciation based on a character string displayed on the display device is available, and displaying a dialog box on the display device in a first display aspect when it is determined that the voice reading software is not available, and displaying a dialog box on a display device in a second display aspect when it is determined that the voice reading software is available. Also, the second display aspect is more adaptable to the voice reading software than the first display aspect.

Abstract: In an incubator, in a state in which a door closes a porthole, a packing prevents an air current flowing between walls of a double-wall of a hood from entering the hood through a porthole in the inner wall. Therefore, the air current does not enter the hood through the porthole in the inner wall. In a state in which the door opens the porthole, because the packing separates from the porthole in the inner wall, the air current flows between the porthole in the inner wall and the porthole in the outer wall. Therefore, an air curtain is formed in the porthole. As a result, a suitable environment in the hood is invariably maintained in both of states in which the door closes and opens the porthole.

Abstract: A Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) system enables high efficiency and high quality. The CAM system of this invention includes a unit that uses a computer aided design (CAD) model that is solid model data of a metal mold to be made and a measured work geometric model that is geometric model data of a work, which is obtained by measuring a work to be machined, to generate a cutting margin model that is difference between the measured work geometric model and the CAD model, and unit that generates numerical control (NC) data based on the generated cutting margin model. According to this invention, one of ordinary skill in the art can easily machine an actual article in conformity with the actual shop floor in the actual factory to make a metal mold.

Abstract: An interactive data analysis support apparatus for supporting the analysis of data comprises: a cross tabulation display device for displaying according to specified summing up conditions a cross tabulation in which data to be analyzed is cross summed up, a cell specifying device for specifying at least one cell among a number of cells constituting the cross tabulation, and a graph display device for displaying the data to be analyzed as a graph within the range of the cell specified by the cell specifying device.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to enable to appropriately carry out deposition due to a design change of an object. This invention comprises the steps of: calculating a difference between three dimensional data representing a form of an object before a design change and three dimensional data representing a form of the object after the design change; and generating deposition data for a shortage portion in the form of the object before the design change by using the calculated difference data, when cutting the object to make the form after the design change. Thus, it is possible to correctly grasp information concerning the deposition necessary to machine the object to make the form after the design change, and to avoid waste of deposition material and cutting work after the deposition. Moreover, this invention may further comprise a step of calculating a region for one or a plurality of deposition layers based on an attribute of a deposition material.

Abstract: When an emission pattern of LEDs of an operation panel of a printer is merely pseudo-displayed on display portions of a local computer and a server computer, a piece of error handling information corresponding to a pseudo pattern of the emission pattern can be acquired. Accordingly, a user can easily handle a generated error without any knowledge about the factor of the error and without any instruction manual.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to enable to appropriately carry out deposition due to a design change of an object. This invention comprises the steps of: calculating a difference between three dimensional data representing a form of an object before a design change and three dimensional data representing a form of the object after the design change; and generating deposition data for a shortage portion in the form of the object before the design change by using the calculated difference data, when cutting the object to make the form after the design change. Thus, it is possible to correctly grasp information concerning the deposition necessary to machine the object to make the form after the design change, and to avoid waste of deposition material and cutting work after the deposition. Moreover, this invention may further comprise a step of calculating a region for one or a plurality of deposition layers based on an attribute of a deposition material.

Abstract: This invention is to achieve a new Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) system enabling high efficiency and high quality. The CAM system of this invention includes means for using a computer aided design (CAD) model that is solid model data of a metal mold to be made and a measured work geometric model that is geometric model data of a work, which is obtained by measuring a work to be machined, to generate a cutting margin model that is difference between the measured work geometric model and the CAD model, and means for generating numerical control (NC) data based on the generated cutting margin model. According to this invention, an artisan who is well aware of the working know-how can easily machine an actual article in conformity with the actual shop floor in the actual factory to make a metal mold. Thereby, the spiral-up of the technology and skill is achieved.

Abstract: A compression-ignition internal combustion engine for conducting pilot injection and main injection beyond the top dead center, wherein pilot injection quantity and timing are optimized. A compression-ignition internal combustion engine, comprising a fuel injection valve for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber in a cylinder, the quantity and timing of the fuel injected through the fuel injection valve being controlled based on engine operating conditions; wherein pilot injection is carried out prior to the top dead center of compression, main injection is then carried out beyond the top dead center of compression, and fuel injection quantity and fuel injection timing of the pilot injection are set such that the maximum rate of heat release induced by the pilot injection is 60 kJ/s or less.

Abstract: According to a display processing unit, dividing axes are arranged and the division number and a connection between classification results are simultaneously displayed by a polygonal line onto a parallel coordinate graph obtained as a polygonal line by plotting a classification result of every plural analysis items by a clustering processing unit onto an axis of each analysis item. An annual ring diagram showing a division number which is more proper as an annual ring is thicker is displayed. The display processing unit displays a tree diagram obtained as a processing result of a classification processing unit by a folding, sorting, or the like so as to be easily understood. An output processing unit converts an unknown rule discovered by the classification into a format which can be used in an external application and outputs it.

Abstract: A compression-ignition internal combustion engine for conducting pilot injection and main injection beyond the top dead center, wherein pilot injection quantity and timing are optimized.

Abstract: A compression-ignition internal combustion engine for conducting pilot injection and main injection beyond the top dead center, wherein pilot injection quantity and timing are optimized. A compression-ignition internal combustion engine, comprising a fuel injection valve for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber in a cylinder, the quantity and timing of the fuel injected through the fuel injection valve being controlled based on engine operating conditions; wherein pilot injection is carried out prior to the top dead center of compression, main injection is then carried out beyond the top dead center of compression, and fuel injection quantity and fuel injection timing of the pilot injection are set such that the maximum rate of heat release induced by the pilot injection is 60 kJ/s or less.

Abstract: An interactive data analysis support apparatus for supporting the analysis of data comprises: a cross tabulation display device for displaying according to specified summing up conditions a cross tabulation in which data to be analyzed is cross summed up, a cell specifying device for specifying at least one cell among a number of cells constituting the cross tabulation, and a graph display device for displaying the data to be analyzed as a graph within the range of the cell specified by the cell specifying device.

Abstract: A printer control device capable of performing a buffer memory clearing operation within a short period of time without complicating the control of the clearing operation. A RAM 8 stores an end address of an immediately preceding block of print data. CPU 6 develops a present block of print data received from a host computer into a buffer memory 8a so as to overwrite it on the immediately preceding block of print data which has been stored in the buffer memory 8a. When an end address of the present block of print data developed into the buffer memory 8a is smaller than the end address stored in the RAM 8, storage locations of the buffer memory 8a from the end address of the present block of print data to the end address stored in the RAM 8 are cleared. Then, the end address stored in the RAM 8 is replaced with the end address of the present block of print data.

Abstract: A blow molded container of the present invention is a container formed by blow molding in which a single-layer or multi-layer parison comprising a cylindrical resin material is heated and inflated by air in a mold, wherein a bottom sealing portion formed by pinch offs of the mold has a projection projecting outwardly from the container and sunk portions formed in one of the resin layers constituting the projection such a manner as to be buried in the other resin layer.