Abstract: There is provided a heat exchanger and a water heater having the heat exchanger including a uniform thickness of tin plating layer on the inner surface of a water feeding pipe. The heat exchanger H includes copper pipes 8 and 10 disposed in a casing 1 as a water feeding pipe 4 and a turbulent flow generator 13 disposed in the copper pipes 8 and 10. The turbulent flow generator 13 has a copper plating layer 14 on the surface portion thereof. The tin plating layers 17 and 18 are disposed on the inner surface of the copper pipes 8 and 10 and the surface of the turbulent flow generator 13.

Abstract: A vaporizer has gas passage formed inside of main body of a dispersion part, a gas inlet opening to introduce pressurized carrier gas into gas passage, a part to supply raw materials solution to carrier gas passing gas passage, a gas outlet to send carrier gas including dispersed raw material solution to vaporization part, a dispersion part to flow through gas passage having a part to cool, a vaporization pipe connected with a reaction part and gas outlet of dispersion part of the device, and a heater to heat vaporization pipe is provided, a vaporization part to heat and vaporizes the carrier gas where raw materials solution is dispersed is provided, and a radiation prevention portion having small hole for the outside of gas outlet is provided.

Abstract: There is provided a data output apparatus, data output method, program, and storage medium which preferably execute a printing process using print data input to the printing apparatus via an external storage device without decreasing the speed of the printing process while ensuring a security of classified information contained in the print data. Print data stored in a detachable external storage device such as a removable medium is input, and then the print data is developed to image data printable by the printing apparatus. The developed image data is printed out on a printing medium. Upon the development process of the print data to the image data, the development process is executed while switching the first mode to execute the development process using a storage area of the external storage device and the second mode to execute the development process using a storage area of the printing apparatus.

Abstract: To provide a deterioration control oil filter capable of increasing an effect for purifying pollutants, floating matters, or the like in a lubricating oil or a hydraulic oil as well as increasing an effect for suppressing the oxidation of the lubricating oil or the hydraulic oil. A long filtration functioning distance using mineral particles 30 can be secured, since an oil inlet pipe 24 for discharging the lubricating oil or the hydraulic oil into the casing 29 is connected to a bottom center of the casing which is isolated from the atmosphere, an oil outlet pipe 25 is connected to a bottom of the casing 29, and the mineral particles 30 are provided in the casing 29 interspacially at an upper portion of the casing, thereby allowing the lubricating oil to circulate in the casing in an up-and-down direction.

Abstract: A printing system which is capable of performing square back processing and preventing occurrence of a new trouble of inadvertently creating a saddle-stitched brochure defective in the appearance of a trimmed edge and/or print appearance, which is unexpected by an operator. A receiving unit receives a job of a first type for creating a saddle-stitched brochure subjected to square back processing and trimming processing or a second type creating a saddle-stitched brochure not subjected to the square back processing but subjected to the trimming processing. A controller controls a trimming position at an end of the sheet bundle for the job and/or an image printing position on a sheet included in the sheet bundle based on whether a job to be processed is of the first type or of the second type.

Abstract: A printing system which is capable of performing square back processing and has a mechanism that makes it possible to prevent occurrence of a new trouble of inadvertently creating a saddle-stitched brochure defective in appearance and/or stackability, which is unexpected by an operator. A printing apparatus receives plural jobs including a saddle-stitch job for creating a saddle-stitched brochure of a predetermined kind. In the saddle-stitch job, saddle-stitch processing and square back processing are carried out. The square back processing is performed by a saddle-stitching machine. The saddle-stitching machine forms a flat surface on the back of a saddle-stitched brochure. A controller permits or inhibits creating the saddle-stitched brochure of the predetermined kind for a job based on whether the job meets a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a disperser for vaporizer capable of preventing a fluid dispersion from being crystallized when a carrier gas into which thin-film forming materials are dispersed is injected from a terminus end injection port, a vaporizer for MOCVD using the disperser for vaporizer, and a carrier gas vaporizing method. A plurality of thin-film forming materials are dispersed into a carrier gas introduced into a gas passage by a dispersion section located in a midway portion of a gas passage 35 into which the carrier gas is introduced. An air flow substantially along the injection direction of carrier gas into which the plurality of thin-film forming materials injected from an terminus end injection port 35b are dispersed is injected from an air flow injection port 38 formed near the terminus end injection port 35b located in the downstream end portion of the gas passage 35.

Abstract: A vaporizer has gas passage formed inside of main body of a dispersion part, a gas inlet opening to introduce pressurized carrier gas into gas passage, a part to supply raw materials solution to carrier gas passing gas passage, a gas outlet to send carrier gas including dispersed raw material solution to vaporization part, a dispersion part to flow through gas passage having a part to cool, a vaporization pipe connected with a reaction part and gas outlet of dispersion part of the device, and a heater to heat vaporization pipe is provided, a vaporization part to heat and vaporizes the carrier gas where raw materials solution is dispersed is provided, and a radiation prevention portion having small hole for the outside of gas outlet is provided.

Abstract: An apparatus operable to perform printing and connected to a control apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store paper information including paper identification information and paper attribute information, an identification unit configured to identify alternate paper information corresponding to paper information from the paper information stored in the storage unit based on paper attribute information included in the paper information corresponding to identification information transmitted from the control apparatus, and a transmission unit configured to transmit identification information included in the alternate paper information identified by the identification unit as alternate identification information to the control apparatus.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for forming a thin film which contributes to uniformize the film pressure of a film formed on a substrate. A shower nozzle (15) is provided with a peripheral wall (15c) which stands on the opening edge of an outer wall (15a). The shower nozzle (15) is supplied with a raw material gas via a pipe (14) which gas is vaporized by a vaporizer (11), and sprays the raw material gas onto a substrate (P) which is arranged opposite to a nozzle surface (15b) for formation of a film.

Abstract: A printing apparatus connected to an external apparatus for temporarily storing a print job including a plurality of pages of image data, receives image data related to the print job from the external apparatus and performs printing using the received image data, comprising a storage unit for temporarily storing the image data received from the external apparatus, a printing unit for performing printing using the image data stored in the storage unit, a determination unit for determining an amount of free area in the storage unit and a control unit for performing a control to switch storage of the image data in the storage unit from storing all of the pages of the image data to storing some of the pages of the image data, in response to the amount of free area determined becoming smaller than a predetermined area during printing.

Abstract: A levitation transportation device capable of adjustment when an object being transported is displaced from the center of a transportation path, A levitation transportation device having a transportation path forming a transportation router for an object to be transported, a plurality of jetting nozzles for transporting the object in a levitated manner along the transportation path, one or more detection sections for detecting the direction of the transportation of the object being transported in the transportation path and a control section for independently controlling the plurality of jetting nozzles based on a detection result by the detection sections.

Abstract: A vaporizer which can be used for extended time without blockage, and possible to stably supply raw materials to a reaction part. A gas passage 2 is formed inside of main body of a dispersion part 1, a gas inlet opening 4 is utilized to introduce a pressurized carrier gas 3 into gas passage 2, a supply source 6 is utilized to supply raw material solution 5 to a carrier gas passing through gas passage 2. A vaporization pipe 20 is connected with a reaction part and gas outlet 7 of dispersion part 8 of the device, with a heater 21 to heat vaporization pipe 20, while a vaporization part 22 is utilized to heat and vaporize the carrier gas where a raw material solution is dispersed.

Abstract: To print a satisfactory image output according to a kind of image without pressure of memory resources and a decrease of transfer speed due to an increase of image data capacity, a CPU of an image processing apparatus expands print data received from an external apparatus into image data, generates an attribute signal representing an attribute of the image data expanded based on the print data, stores the image data of which the data capacity has been reduced by decreasing the number of gradations and the generated attribute signal in a frame memory, and transmits the image data stored in the frame memory to an image forming apparatus according to the attribute of the image data in a state that the attribute signal has been added to the stored image data.

Abstract: Print data is input from an external device, and the input print data is analyzed. The print data is temporarily saved in a holding unit on the basis of the analysis result to interrupt a printing process for the print data and start the printing process for another print data.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus inputs print data from an external device, and analyzes the input print data. The image processing apparatus rasterizes the print data into first image data on the basis of the analysis result. The image processing apparatus receives status information representing the status of a printing apparatus, temporarily saves the first image data in a holding unit on the basis of the received status information and the analysis result, interrupts a transfer process for the first image data to the printing apparatus, starts the transfer process for second image data to the printing apparatus, and transfers, to the printing apparatus, setting information of the print data that corresponds to the first image data. The printing apparatus determines whether corresponding image data has been received within a predetermined period after reception of the setting information of the print data from the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: The presence/absence of a printing failure on a printed product is accurately detected to prevent a defective product from mixing in printed products to be delivered to a customer. In order to achieve this object, a printing processing method according to this invention includes steps of inputting first image data, executing the printing process for a printing medium based on the first image data, reading the printing medium on which the first image data is printed to obtain second image data, specifying a determination area to be used to determine the presence/absence of a printing failure in the second image data based on a processing content after the printing process for the printing medium, and determining the presence/absence of the printing failure by comparing the first image data and the second image data corresponding to the determination area.

Abstract: There is provided a vaporizer in which the path of a reaction tube can be kept long, and vaporization can be promoted evenly by radiation heat from a heater by agitating a carrier gas into which a source solution is dispersed in the direction crossing the passing direction of the gas, the agitation being made by a centrifugal force produced when the gas passes through the reaction tube. A carrier gas into which a source solution consisting of a liquid or powder is dispersed is supplied from the upstream side to a spiral reaction tube 103, and the carrier gas into which the source solution is dispersed and which passes through the reaction tube 103 is vaporized by radiation heat from a heater 104.

Abstract: There is provided a vaporizer that can be used for a long period of time without being clogged and can supply a raw material stably to a reaction section.

Abstract: The invention proposes a method for devising a production plan of a product to be produced through multiple production steps having different characteristics in a supply chain across multiple companies and/or multiple factories. The method divides a production step of the product into multiple production steps in advance based on a constraint to be considered when the production plan therefor is devised, defines identifiers for the multiple production steps, prestores the defined identifiers in a storage portion as step identification information, and prestores step information having at least correspondences between the production steps and items.