Abstract: As a replacement cartridge is moved closer to a wireless communication section provided on the housing of a printer, information stored in a non-volatile memory of the replacement cartridge is acquired by the wireless communication section. A CPU of the printer compares the amount of ink remaining in the replacement cartridge, obtained from the acquired information, with the amount of an ink remaining in a cartridge on a carriage which retains an ink of the same color as the color of the ink in the replacement cartridge. In the case where the ink remaining amount in the replacement cartridge is larger, the CPU decides that the cartridge should be replaced and moves the carriage in such a way that the target cartridge for replacement is positioned directly under an opening portion in the housing. This makes the cartridge replacement task easier.

Abstract: A discharging container with a filter capable of sucking content liquid remaining on the downstream side of the filter to the upstream side of the filter, capable of accurately dripping the content liquid while avoiding an air lock state, and manufacturable at reduce cost, particularly in an instillation vial, comprising a bottle formed by laminating an inner layer separable from an outer layer on the inner surface of the outer layer and a plug body fitted to the mouth part of the bottle. A discharging passage for discharging the content liquid stored in the body part of the inner layer is formed in the plug body, and the filter is installed in the discharging passage.

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a method for designing a glass-plate-aimed bending mold making use of a 3-dimensional CAD application for solid models, in a short time with simple operations, by utilizing a previously designed solid model. To this end, there is modified a ring frame of a solid model of a mold stored in an existing-solid-model storing part, such that the ring frame conforms to the shape of a new glass plate, by glass shape replacing means. By using modified parameter reflecting means, the modification of the modifiable parameters inherited from the existing solid-model is reflected to the modified solid model, to thereby optimize the modifiable parameters of a new solid model.

Abstract: A method for manufactuing a curved glass plate includes the steps of mounting a single glass plate blank heated to a deformable temperature in a heating furnace on a lower mold configured for supporting a lower face peripheral edge of the glass plate blank outside the heating furnace, pressing a curvature forming upper mold which bulges downwardly against an upper face of the glass plate to form a curvature in the glass plate and coolign the curved glass plate as being mounted on the lower mold by natural cooling or near-natural cooling, thereby to obtain the curved glass plate as a final product. During the step of cooling the glass plate on the lower mold, the lower mold is heated whereas an inner portion of the lower face of the glass plate adjacent the portion of the glass plate placed in contact with the lower mold is forcibly cooled.

Abstract: As a replacement cartridge is moved closer to a wireless communication section provided on the housing of a printer, information stored in a non-volatile memory of the replacement cartridge is acquired by the wireless communication section. A CPU of the printer compares the amount of ink remaining in the replacement cartridge, obtained from the acquired information, with the amount of an ink remaining in a cartridge on a carriage which retains an ink of the same color as the color of the ink in the replacement cartridge. In the case where the ink remaining amount in the replacement cartridge is larger, the CPU decides that the cartridge should be replaced and moves the carriage in such a way that the target cartridge for replacement is positioned directly under an opening portion in the housing. This makes the cartridge replacement task easier.

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a method for designing a glass-plate-aimed bending mold making use of a 3-dimensional CAD application for solid models, in a short time with simple operations, by utilizing a previously designed solid model. To this end, there is modified a ring frame of a solid model of a mold stored in an existing-solid-model storing part, such that the ring frame conforms to the shape of a new glass plate, by glass shape replacing means. By using modified parameter reflecting means, the modification of the modifiable parameters inherited from the existing solid-model is reflected to the modified solid model, to thereby optimize the modifiable parameters of a new solid model.

Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a lower case containing wiring boards with busbars such that the boards stand upright, an upper case combined with the lower case, upper and lower connection terminals extended from each wiring board and vertically penetrating through an inclined upper terminal supporting member and a lower terminal supporting member, respectively. The upper terminal supporting member forms part of drain path which has a rim formed at a peripheral edge thereof except for the lower end thereof. Water that has entered the junction box is guided along the inclined upper terminal supporting member, and then drops from the lower end thereof into a drainpipe of the lower case.

Abstract: A suction mold has a central suction chamber having a flat shaping surface area and a pair of opposite side suction chambers disposed one on each side of the central suction chamber and having respective curved shaping surface areas. First, a vacuum is developed in the central suction chamber to attract a central area of the sheet of glass against the flat shaping surface area thereof, and then a vacuum is developed in the opposite side suction chambers to attract opposite side areas of the sheet of glass respectively against the curved shaping surface areas.

Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a lower case containing wiring boards with busbars such that the boards stand upright, an upper case combined with the lower case, upper and lower connection terminals extended from each wiring board and vertically penetrating through an inclined upper terminal supporting member and a lower terminal supporting member, respectively. The upper terminal supporting member forms part of drain path which has a rim formed at a peripheral edge thereof except for the lower end thereof. Water that has entered the junction box is guided along the inclined upper terminal supporting member, and then drops from the lower end thereof into a drainpipe of the lower case.

Abstract: A wiring base made from an electrical insulating material and having a plurality of wing sections radially protruding against the central axis thereof functioning as a rotation axis in a wiring work with electric wire grooves each for accommodating therein an electric wire provided in the substantially concentric form, a wire-wound member production method, wire-wound member, and an electrical connection box using the wire-wound member therein.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wiring board comprising the steps of winding an electrical wire around a insulating plate having a number of electrical wire grooves for placing an electrical wire therein and a number of terminal grooves formed at positions corresponding to the electrical wire grooves in which the attached pressure connection terminal is connected to the electrical wire making use of the electrical wire grooves; cutting the electrical wire wound around the insulating plate at desired positions; and attaching the pressure connection terminal at a desired position in the number of terminal grooves, a wiring board, and an electrical connection box manufactured by accommodating the wiring box in a casing.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method of manufacturing a wiring board, and an electric connection box manufactured by retaining the manufactured wiring board in a case. The method comprises the steps of winding electric wires around an insulating plate in first and second directions different from each other; cutting the electric wires at a first desired position; connecting the electric wires at a second desired position where the electric wires cross each other; and attaching a connecting terminal to the electric wires at a third desired position.

Abstract: A wiring base made from an electrical insulating material and having a plurality of wing sections radially protruding against the central axis thereof functioning as a rotation axis in a wiring work with electric wire grooves each for accommodating therein an electric wire provided in the substantially concentric form, a wire-wound member production method, wire-wound member, and an electrical connection box using the wire-wound member therein.

Abstract: An electrical connection box 1 having circuit boards 41, 42 contained in a case. The circuit boards 41, 42 are assigned to a power supply system for start and travelling of an automobile and a power supply system for general loads, respectively.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wiring board comprising the steps of winding an electrical wire around a insulating plate having a number of electrical wire grooves for placing an electrical wire therein and a number of terminal grooves formed at positions corresponding to the electrical wire grooves in which the attached pressure connection terminal is connected to the electrical wire making use of the electrical wire grooves; cutting the electrical wire wound around the insulating plate at desired positions; and attaching the pressure connection terminal at a desired position in the number of terminal grooves, a wiring board, and an electrical connection box manufactured by accommodating the wiring box in a casing.

Abstract: An electric connection box of the present invention comprises an upper case, a lower case fitting with the upper case, a connector housing connecting with a connector from the outside, one or a plurality of bus-bars each arranged sandwiched between the upper case and the lower case and having a terminal portion comprised of a plurality of terminal pieces positioned arranged in parallel inside the connector housing and a bus-bar body integrally formed with the terminal portion, and an insulator provided at least between the plurality of terminal pieces to connect and secure the terminal pieces to each other, by which insulator the narrow width terminal pieces are connected with each other and disturbance of the pitch or deformation is prevented.

Abstract: A rotary connector configured so as to enable extension or contraction of a cable transmitting electrical signals etc. by connecting a spirally wound flat cable between two cable parts and making the spirally wound flat cable wind or unwind using a rotary body and a fixed body, more particularly a rotary connector able to protect the flat cable from fusing when an overcurrent flows. The plus side connection portion of connection portions between conductors of a flat cable and an outer conductor (cable) electrically connects the conductors of the flat cable and the outer conductor through members having a fuse function. When a short-circuit occurs in the circuit including the flat cable and the outer conductor, the member having a fuse function fuses first so as to prevent the flat cable from heating and fusing.

Abstract: An electrical connection box has electronic components mounted therein and includes a heat pipe for radiating heat generated from the electronic components to the outside. The heat pipe has a heat absorbing portion inside the connection box and a heat radiating portion outside the connection box. The heat pipe is formed of an electrically conductive material, and an electrically conductive heat collecting member is provided for collecting the heat generated from the electronic components. The heat absorbing portion of the heat pipe is connected to the heat collecting member, and a grounding current is supplied to the heat pipe and the heat collecting member.

Abstract: In a semiconductor apparatus having a PNP bipolar transistor and high voltage resistance, there is formed an oxide insulating layer in the surface region of a P-type semiconductor substrate. In the above semiconductor substrate is formed a P-type collector layer so that at least a part of the P-type collector layer is in contact with said oxide insulating layer. In the surface region of said P-type collector layer is formed a P-type collector contact layer. An N-type base layer is formed in that region on the surface side of said P-type collector layer in which said P-type collector contact layer does not exist. A P-type emitter layer is formed on the surface side of said N-type base layer.

Abstract: A silicon oxide film and a polysilicon film are formed on a silicon substrate and are selectively etched to form a contact hole in a region where an emitter is to be formed. A polysilicon film is laid on the substrate and two polysilicon films are patterned to form an emitter electrode and a gate electrode made of the two polysilicon films which are doped with arsenic. The arsenic is diffused from the polysilicon films of the emitter electrode into the silicon substrate to form an N.sup.+ emitter layer which has a high concentration and is shallow. Consequently, the contamination of a gate insulator film can be prevented from occurring and a bipolar transistor having high performance, for example, a high current amplification factor or the like can be formed.