Abstract: An open-close apparatus includes: a first member movably provided with respect to an apparatus main body; a second member movable with respect to the first member, and movably provided with respect to the apparatus main body; and a limiting section, provided between the first and second members, that limits a moving speed of the first and second members.

Abstract: A roll supporting mechanism rotatably supports an electrically-conducted roll. The roll supporting mechanism includes an electrically-conducting portion that contacts with a circumferential portion of an outer periphery of the electrically-conducted roll to conduct electricity to the electrically-conducted roll, and an insulating portion that contacts with the other circumferential portion of the outer periphery of the electrically-conducted roll at a contact portion smaller than a contact portion of the electrically-conducting portion and that is formed by an insulating material.

Abstract: A demodulating circuit including: an FFT processing section; an intercarrier interferential component removing section; an extracting section; a transmission path characteristics estimating section; an interpolating section; a symbol sequence estimating section; and an interference replica generating section.

Abstract: An displacement correcting device is provided and includes: a rotation supporting member having a rotation shaft and rotating to support the endless belt-shaped member; a shaft supporting frame supporting a one-end supporting portion of the rotation shaft movably relative to an opposite-end supporting portion and supporting one end of the rotation shaft to be tilted about the other end; and a shaft displacing member having a rotation center disposed closer to one end portion in the axial direction than a rotation shaft supporting body and intersected by the axial direction and a rotation shaft contact portion contacting with the one end of the rotation shaft. The shaft displacing member allows the rotation shaft contact portion to rotate about the rotation center to tilt the rotation shaft when a movement sensing member detects the movement of the endless belt-shaped member to the one end of the rotation shaft.

Abstract: An image forming device which transfers a toner image carried on an image carrying body from the image carrying body to a transfer receiving body in a transfer section, the device including a charge producing section provided at an upstream side, in a moving direction of the transfer receiving body, with respect to a position at which the image carrying body and the transfer receiving body oppose each other so as not to be contacted with the transfer receiving body.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is A demodulating circuit including: an FFT processing section; an intercarrier interferential component removing section; an extracting section; a transmission path characteristics estimating section; an interpolating section; a symbol sequence estimating section; and an interference replica generating section.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes: a branch-metric computation section configured to compute a branch metric; a state-metric computation section configured to compute a state metric; a detection section configured to detect a minimum state metric; a storage section configured to store states as surviving states; and a selection section configured to select a candidate.

Abstract: An open-close apparatus includes: a first member movably provided with respect to an apparatus main body; a second member movable with respect to the first member, and movably provided with respect to the apparatus main body; and a limiting section, provided between the first and second members, that limits a moving speed of the first and second members.

Abstract: When conducting encryption key update, each of the network device successively causes transition among an initial state in which only data encrypted using an old encryption key used before the update can be transmitted and received, a state in which both data encrypted using the old encryption key and data encrypted using a new encryption key used after the update can be transmitted and received, but operation concerning transmission and reception of data encrypted using the new encryption key is not confirmed, a state in which both data encrypted using the old encryption key and data encrypted using the new encryption key can be transmitted and received, and operation concerning transmission and reception of data encrypted using the new encryption key is already also confirmed, and a final state in which only data encrypted using the new encryption key can be transmitted and received. The encryption key is thus updated.

Abstract: An image forming device which transfers a toner image carried on an image carrying body from the image carrying body to a transfer receiving body in a transfer section, the device including a charge producing section provided at an upstream side, in a moving direction of the transfer receiving body, with respect to a position at which the image carrying body and the transfer receiving body oppose each other so as not to be contacted with the transfer receiving body.

Abstract: A method for producing a thermoelectric semiconductor includes an ingot production step for producing an ingot of a thermoelectric semiconductor and an integrating step for integrating a plurality of the ingots by plastic deforming the ingots to produce an integrated ingot of the thermoelectric semiconductor. The large size of the thermoelectric semiconductor ingot having uniform performance and mechanical strength can be produced by integration of two or more ingots. Therefore, many wafers can be produce at one time in the slicing step, and productivity is improved. Further, two or more ingots are integrated by plastic deformation so that the connecting strength of the connecting interface is strong.

Abstract: A method for producing a thermoelectric semiconductor includes an ingot production step for producing an ingot of a thermoelectric semiconductor and an integrating step for integrating a plurality of the ingots by plastic deforming the ingots to produce an integrated ingot of the thermoelectric semiconductor. The large size of the thermoelectric semiconductor ingot having uniform performance and mechanical strength can be produced by integration of two or more ingots. Therefore, many wafers can be produce at one time in the slicing step, and productivity is improved. Further, two or more ingots are integrated by plastic deformation so that the connecting strength of the connecting interface is strong.

Abstract: A process for producing a sintered thermoelectric semiconductor includes a first step of forming bulk crystals of a thermoelectric semiconductor and a second step of hot extrusion. The second step includes substeps of placing the bulk crystals in the cavity of a heated extrusion die, pushing the ram into the cavity, thereby compressing and crushing the bulk crystals and turning them into a molten or semi-molten state, and finally extruding the molten or semi-molten crystals, thereby sintering them and forming a sintered thermoelectric semiconductor.

Abstract: A disk stores an application program for defining items to be set in a slip image stored/held in a disk and their layout positions. When another slip image similar to this slip image is designated, and part of the slip form is to be modified in accordance with this other slip image, a modification command is input from a keyboard. A definition control section then registers the modification contents in a disk. A modifier section creates a new application program corresponding to the other slip image on the basis of the modification contents in the disk and the definition contents in the disk.