Abstract: A surface treatment apparatus for printed sheets that is capable of preventing radiation of UV rays onto printed sheets when out of use including a varnishing section for applying UV cure resin varnish on a printed sheet; a cylinder for conveying a printed sheet with the UV cure resin varnish applied thereon at the varnishing section; a film pressing part for pressing a transfer film onto a printed sheet on the cylinder; and a UV radiation part for curing UV cure resin varnish of a printed sheet onto which the transfer film is being pressed by the film pressing part. The UV radiation part is positioned close to the cylinder when the film pressing part is positioned close to the impression cylinder; and the UV radiation part is positioned away from the cylinder when the film pressing part is positioned away from the cylinder.

Abstract: An object is to provide a drying device of a printing press that is capable of securely storing the integrated values of the irradiation times of LEDs and notifying the operator of the replacement timing of the LEDs. Two control parts are provided to control operation of the printing press. The two control parts each store and update integrated values of the irradiation times of the LEDs on one-by-one basis or on a group-by-group basis automatically or arbitrarily, and compare and update the integrated values of one of the two control parts with the integrated values of the remaining control part to keep each of the integrated values of both the control parts update with the latest integrated value.

Abstract: An object is to provide a transfer device and a transfer method for printed sheets of paper that are capable of matching the traveling speed of a transfer film to the conveying speed of printed sheets of paper irrespective of the thickness of printed sheets of paper. The transfer device includes a transfer section for transferring patters of a transfer film onto a surface of each of printed sheets of paper conveyed by a cylinder; a traveling speed setting means for setting the traveling speed of a transfer film according to the thickness of each of the printed sheets of paper; and a speed control means for controlling the actual traveling speed of the transfer film so as to match the actual traveling speed of the transfer film to the traveling speed of the transfer film set by the traveling speed setting means.

Abstract: An object is to simplify a drive control structure of a transfer device that is designed to stop running of a film when hologram forming or surface treatment is not performed, during which the film is not required to run, and restart the film running from the running stopped state.

Abstract: A blood rheology measurement device and a blood rheology measurement method which detect a fingerprint or a vein to thereby measure a positional relation between an artery in a living body and a sensor on the same conditions for each subject during non-invasive measurement and which correctly evaluate a change of blood rheology with elapse of time. A vein pattern or a fingerprint pattern peculiar to a subject is detected, recognized, and stored, a position of a sensor is adjusted so that the detected vein pattern or fingerprint pattern agrees with the stored vein pattern or fingerprint pattern every measurement, and a blood rheology index value indicating blood fluidity (fluidity/viscosity) is measured.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is connected to a plurality of networks including a network connected with an image processor and includes a storer for storing in memory a plurality of address sets each composed of a first kind address of the image forming apparatus and a first kind address of the image processor, and a communication controller to employ the plurality of address sets stored in memory of the storer, for a sequence of trials of connection with the image processor to determine a connectable address set to use for communications with the image processor, as the image processor is adapted for storage of a plurality of address sets each composed of a first kind address of the image processor and a first kind address of the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: There is provided a pulse detecting device which resists fluctuations in the quality by locating an ultrasound transmitting piezoelectric element and an ultrasound receiving piezoelectric element with high precision. In the pulse detecting device, a detection sensitivity of the pulse is improved. A transmitting piezoelectric element and a receiving piezoelectric element are fixed onto a substrate by electrodes. The transmitting piezoelectric element is excited in response to an inputted drive voltage signal to generate an ultrasound and transmits the generated ultrasound to a living body. The receiving piezoelectric element receives an echo produced by reflecting the ultrasound transmitted into the living body by a blood flow of the living body and converts it into a voltage signal. A processing arithmetic unit compares the frequency of the ultrasound generated by the transmitting piezoelectric element with that of the echo received in the receiving piezoelectric element to thereby detect a pulse.

Abstract: An electronic-parts package includes a base member, a conductive member extending through the base member, the conductive member having the insulating substance on the surface removed by polishing, electronic parts disposed on one surface of the conductive member through a connection portion, an exterior electrode disposed through a metal film on the opposite surface of the surface of the base member on which the electronic parts is disposed, and a cap member that protects the electronic parts on the base member.

Abstract: A printer including: a plurality of paper receiving trays configured to receive discharged sheets; a tray full detection sensor configured to detect that an amount of discharged sheets stacked on the respective paper receiving trays reaches a respective predetermined amount; a tray empty detection sensor configured to detect that no discharged sheets are stacked on the respective paper receiving trays; and a paper discharge control unit configured to, when the tray full detection sensor detects that an amount of discharged sheets stacked on a first paper receiving tray used as a current paper discharge destination reaches the predetermined amount during printing, perform continuous paper discharge to continue printing by changing the paper discharge destination from the first paper receiving tray to a second paper receiving tray that the tray empty detection sensor detects as having no discharged sheets stacked thereon at a time of the detection of the first paper receiving tray and that receives discharged s

Abstract: A regular quasi-cyclic matrix is prepared, a conditional expression for assuring a predetermined minimum loop in a parity check matrix is derived, and a mask matrix for converting a specific cyclic permutation matrix into a zero-matrix based on the conditional expression and a predetermined weight distribution is generated. The specific cyclic permutation matrix is converted into the zero-matrix to generate an irregular masking quasi-cyclic matrix. An irregular parity check matrix in which the masking quasi-cyclic matrix and a matrix in which the cyclic permutation matrices are arranged in a staircase manner are arranged in a predetermined location.

Abstract: An interleaving method according to the present invention is an interleaving method implemented when interleaving is performed on an encoded sequence after being error-correction encoded in a communication device on a data transmission side. This method is implemented in such a manner that an inter-carrier interleaver (6) rearranges carrier numbers according to an error correction method, and separates the encoded sequence after being error-correction encoded by each number of bits corresponding to a modulation method obtained for each carrier, and that an inner-carrier bit interleaver (5) rearranges bits by the number of bits separated according to the modulation method.

Abstract: There is provided a method of winding up a transfer film and a device for performing transfer printing on printed sheets of paper, capable of eliminating the need to frequently replace the transfer film, thereby allowing the transfer film to be used over a prolonged time. According to the method of winding up a transfer film, the transfer film fed from a feed roll through a feed path is pressed onto a fed printed sheet to transfer patterns of the transfer film, and then the transfer film is wound up onto a windup roll through a windup path. During the rewind of the transfer film from the windup roll to the feed roll, a lateral position of the transfer film running along the feed path is detected, and the feed roll is moved in its axial direction to follow a lateral positional change of the transfer film.

Abstract: There is provided a method of performing transfer printing on sheets of papers capable of stopping a film from running while the film is kept apart from a cylinder and patterns of the film are not transferred onto the sheets, and of joining the film to the cylinder with the film and the cylinder matched in speed and phase at the resumption of running. While the cylinder is rotated at a specific speed, the film is on a first travel path and stopped from running. Before the film is moved from the first travel path to a second travel path to be joined to the cylinder, four steps are performed so that the running speed of the film is matched to the rotation speed of the cylinder, and the phase of marks provided on the film at equal intervals is matched to the phase of a gripper of the cylinder.

Abstract: There is provided a method and a device for performing transfer printing on printed sheets of paper, capable of reliably transferring patterns at predetermined positions on the printed sheets. The device includes a transfer section that conveys a transfer film while conveying the printed sheets and repeatedly transfers patterns of the transfer film onto the printed sheets. A tension adjusting part that adjusts tension on the transfer film is provided to transfer the patterns of the transfer film at the predetermined positions on the printed sheets.

Abstract: There is provided a surface treatment device of a printing press that does not cause adverse affect on a transfer film in the surface treatment device at a quick stop of the printing press. The transfer film is wound around a plurality of rollers in the surface treatment device, and rollers disposed close to an impression cylinder out of the plurality of rollers are adapted to be capable of being individually driven through motors, respectively. At an emergency stop of the printing press, a controlling section fine-adjusts the running speed of the transfer film into synchronization with the speed of the impression cylinder, by driving the rollers individually while acquiring information from an impression cylinder encoder.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a surface treatment apparatus for printed sheets that is capable of securely preventing radiation of UV rays onto printed sheets when out of use, while efficiently radiating UV rays onto printed sheets when in use. There is provided a surface treatment apparatus that includes a varnishing section for applying UV cure resin varnish on a printed sheet in a printed sheet conveying path; a cylinder for conveying a printed sheet with the UV cure resin varnish applied thereon at the varnishing section; a film pressing part for pressing a transfer film onto a printed sheet on the cylinder; and a UV radiation part for curing UV cure resin varnish of a printed sheet onto which the transfer film is being pressed by the film pressing part.

Abstract: An image processing system receives an input gradient number m, input image data I(x,y) whose input gradient number is m, and an output gradient number n and calculates output image data O(x,y) having an output gradient number of n on the basis of the following formula (1). O(x,y)=int[?+d(xd,yd)/(gmax+1)] ??(1) When ? is an integer, the output image data O(x,y) is calculated on the basis of a formula obtained by substituting the calculated ?? for ? in the above formula (1), whereas when ? is not an integer, the output image data O(x,y) is calculated on the basis of the above formula (1).

Abstract: A decoding apparatus includes a row processing unit 5 and a column processing unit 6 for performing a calculation and an update of probability information with row processing and column processing according to a Min-Sum algorithm on a received signal which is low-density parity-check coded in batches of 1 bit or a predetermined number of bits, a decoded result judgment unit 8 for determining a decoded result from a hard decision of a posterior value, for performing a parity check on the decoded result, and for judging whether or not the decoded result is correct, and a control unit for controlling iteration of decoding processing by the row processing unit 5 and column processing unit 6 on the basis of the judgment result of the decoded result judgment unit 8.

Abstract: In a method of calculating circulation dynamics of a living body, a resistance component corresponding to a shape of a blood vessel in the living body is derived using previously obtained values of viscosity, pressure and flow rate of blood flowing in the blood vessel. Information corresponding to the viscosity of the blood is calculated using the derived resistance component.

Abstract: A home position sensor, which constitutes a portion of a home position storage unit, stores a home position by means of previously detecting the position of a printing cylinder cam. Accordingly, a printing cylinder comes to a stop at a plate replacement position at the time of replacement of a plate even when the printing cylinder cam does not pass by the home position sensor.