Abstract: Provided is a resource management apparatus including an event acquisition unit which acquires, in response to provision of a resource that is to be recycled to a collection location, a collection event of the resource, a provider information acquisition unit which acquires provider identification information for identifying a provider who has provided the resource to the collection location, and a provider recording unit which records an association between collection event identification information for identifying the collection event of the resource and the provider identification information of the provider of the resource in a provider database.

Abstract: A new technology to assist the recycling of resources is provided. Provided is an authentication method for a recycled product performed by a computer system, the authentication method including: a first acquisition step of acquiring information on a receiving amount of a recycled resin in a manufacturing entity of a resin product; a second acquisition step of acquiring information on a sending amount of a resin product using the recycled resin in the manufacturing entity or a different manufacturing entity; and an authentication step of giving authentication to the resin product when an authentication condition based on the information on the sending amount and the receiving amount is satisfied.

Abstract: A traffic light device for emitting signal light includes: a light emitter unit which includes a light emitter being a light source of the signal light; a body which houses the light emitter unit; and a heater unit provided on a path of the signal light emitted by the light emitter unit inside the body, and including a plate-shaped heating glass, on a surface of which a conductive thin film having transparency is formed, and which generates heat when power is supplied to the conductive thin film via a pair of electrodes.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes an apparatus main body portion that contains a recorder that performs recording on a recording medium, and a panel having a display unit that displays various information and being capable of opening and closing an upper portion of the apparatus main body portion by pivoting about a first pivot shaft. The panel has an outer perimeter that includes two short sides and two long sides. The display unit has an outline that includes two short sides and two long sides and is provided on the panel so that a longitudinal direction of the display unit coincides with a longitudinal direction of the panel. The longitudinal direction of the panel intersects a direction of the first pivot shaft about which the panel pivots.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes an apparatus main body portion that contains a recorder that performs recording on a recording medium, and a panel having a display unit that displays various information and being capable of opening and closing an upper portion of the apparatus main body portion by pivoting about a first pivot shaft. The panel has an outer perimeter that includes two short sides and two long sides. The display unit has an outline that includes two short sides and two long sides and is provided on the panel so that a longitudinal direction of the display unit coincides with a longitudinal direction of the panel. The longitudinal direction of the panel intersects a direction of the first pivot shaft about which the panel pivots.

Abstract: For a printing system, a printing device and an information terminal are connected by communication. The printing device includes a wired communication unit configured to communicate by USB, a connection confirmation unit configured to confirm the connection to the information terminal, and a boot application determination unit configured to notify the information terminal of the application to be booted at the information terminal. The information terminal includes a wired communication unit configured to communicate by USB, a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with a server, an application existence determination unit configured to determine installation, a download site determination unit configured to determine a server, an install unit configured to acquire the application from the server and install, and an application boot unit configured to boot the application.

Abstract: A method for driving a medium supplying apparatus which supplies medium by a pick-up roller, wherein an operation of stopping rotation of the pick-up roller is inserted at least one of before an operation of supplying medium to a separating position where, when a plurality of sheets of medium are fed together by the pick-up roller displaced to the supplying position, an uppermost sheet of the plurality of sheets of medium is separated from a lower sheet or sheets, and before an operation of returning the separated lower sheet or sheets after separating the uppermost sheet from the lower sheet or sheets.

Abstract: A power connection/disconnection mechanism which connects and disconnects power, including: a crutch cover having a claw portion, and a projection which a contact portion of a lever is brought into abutment with; a gear having a toothed portion which the claw portion is brought into engagement with and disengagement from, wherein a mesh engagement portion formed from the claw portion and the toothed portion has two stages for forward and backward rotations.

Abstract: A method for driving a medium supplying apparatus which supplies medium by a pick-up roller, wherein an operation of stopping rotation of the pick-up roller is inserted at least one of before an operation of supplying medium to a separating position where, when a plurality of sheets of medium are fed together by the pick-up roller displaced to the supplying position, an uppermost sheet of the plurality of sheets of medium is separated from a lower sheet or sheets, and before an operation of returning the separated lower sheet or sheets after separating the uppermost sheet from the lower sheet or sheets.

Abstract: A feeder is operable to feed the medium. A separator is provided with an abutment portion on which the medium fed in a first direction by the feeder is adapted to abut and which projects in a second direction opposed to the first direction.

Abstract: A power connection/disconnection mechanism which connects and disconnects power, including: a crutch cover having a claw portion, and a projection which a contact portion of a lever is brought into abutment with; a gear having a toothed portion which the claw portion is brought into engagement with and disengagement from, wherein a mesh engagement portion formed from the claw portion and the toothed portion has two stages for forward and backward rotations.

Abstract: A color video display apparatus for vehicles detects a light or dark condition outside a vehicle to perform a variable gain control on a circuit for amplifying blue, green and red video signals. In response to the dark condition outside the vehicle, the amplification factor of the red video signal is increased relative to those of the blue and green video signals.