Abstract: A peripheral unit is controlled by means of a driver in another apparatus, where an instruction sent to the peripheral unit contains both data produced by the driver and data produced by another application in the other apparatus. This is done by subjecting the instruction received from the other apparatus to processing in which the data produced by the other application is deleted.

Abstract: An ink set is provided which can prevent the occurrence of a new color mixing phenomenon in which a different ink comes into the insides of particular ink channels. The ink set is constituted of plurality of inks. The plurality of inks constituting the ink set is stored respectively in ink cartridges each having an ink storage portion which is brought into a hermetically-closed state. The difference in specific gravity between a first ink having the largest specific gravity and a second ink having the smallest specific gravity among the inks constituting the ink set is less than 0.020.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an ink which has a sufficiently large area factor even in a small ink droplet quantity and can obtain images having a high image density, and further has a superior storage stability. According to the present invention, a cyan ink is provided which is used in an ink set having four kinds of aqueous inks consisting of a cyan ink, a magenta ink, a yellow ink and a black ink in which each ink comprises at least water, a water-insoluble coloring material, and a plurality of water-soluble organic solvents having a good medium or good mediums for the water-insoluble coloring material and a poor medium or poor mediums for the water-insoluble coloring material, wherein, the ratio B1/A1 is from 0.5 or more to 3.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus connectable to an external device, having a first driver storage unit to store a first driver to control a connected external device in a general-purpose manner, a determination unit to determine whether or not a second driver, to control the connected external device in a device-specific manner exists in the external device, an acquisition unit to, if the determination unit determines that the second driver exits, obtain the second driver from the connected external device, and a second driver storage unit to store the obtained second driver.

Abstract: The invention provides a connector capable of reducing an amount of liquid remaining in a container when the liquid is drawn out therefrom in which the liquid is stored. A connector 1 that is disposed at containers 51 and 61 in which liquid is stored to draw out the liquid includes a connecting unit 5 having a threaded portion 17 that is screwed onto a container-side threaded portion 63 formed at the containers 51 and 61; a main body coupled so as to have a common a central axis with the connecting unit 5; and a siphon tube 9 that is secured to the main body 3 and that extends to a bottom portion of the containers 51 and 61. The connecting unit 5 and the main body 3 are connected so as to be capable of relatively rotating about the central axis.

Abstract: A recording head and a recording unit are provided achieving both the reliability of ejection stability and storage stability and the prevention of a new color mixing phenomenon. The recording head has ejection orifice lines each of which ejects each of the inks constituting an ink set. The plurality of inks is stored respectively in ink cartridges each having an ink storage portion being brought into a hermetically-closed state. At least three types of inks among the inks are different in specific gravity from one another, and at least two types of inks among the at least three types of inks are different in specific gravity by 0.020 or more. The ejection orifice lines are arranged so that the total sum of differences in specific gravities between the inks to be ejected from ejection orifice lines adjacent to each other among the inks to be ejected from the ejection orifice lines becomes minimal.

Abstract: An aqueous ink, by which stable ink-jet recording can be conducted irrespective of printing environment, a substantially even image having abrasion resistance can be formed, no image soiling is caused even upon double-side printing, and a high-quality image improved in unclearness at a contour portion of the image and free from occurrence of color bleed can be provided, is provided. The aqueous ink is an aqueous ink used in a system that a reaction liquid containing at least a polyvalent metal and an aqueous ink containing at least a pigment dispersion, in which a pigment is dispersed with an anionic polymer dispersant, are used to form an image, wherein the aqueous ink satisfies specific condition.

Abstract: It is determined whether or not a jammed document is necessarily returned to a document tray when a jam of the document is caused within a carrier path and, then, the elevation operation of the document tray is controlled on the basis of its result of the determination. Since the jammed sheet of which reading has not been completed should be returned to the document tray, the document tray is moved down. Since the jammed sheet of which reading has been completed should not be returned to the document tray, the document tray is maintained at a position as it is. When the apparatus stops due to the carrying jam, a time required for processing the document is shortened.

Abstract: There are provided a DNA oligomer, a genetic marker, and a DNA oligomer set (PCR primer set) and a DNA oligomer (extension primer) for predicting a possibility of onset of a side-effect from radiation therapy for cancer by determining whether a specific base in a DNA sequence is a risk allele or a non-risk allele, and a method for predicting onset of a side-effect from radiation therapy. The DNA oligomer for a prediction of onset of a side-effect from radiation therapy has a DNA sequence of at least 10-241 contiguous bases with a 121st base from a sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1-173 in the Sequence Listing.

Abstract: A disclosed interior material structure for a vehicle including an interior material made of a conductive portion and non-conductive portions covering the conductive portion includes a grounding unit (103) configured to electrically connect the conductive portion and a vehicle body. The grounding unit includes an interior material side terminal (201), a vehicle body side terminal (202), and a conductive wire (204). The interior material side terminal has a projecting member configured to bite into the interior material and then to be locked with the bite of the interior material in contact with the conductive portion. The vehicle body side terminal is configured to be attached to the vehicle body such that the vehicle body side terminal is electrically connected to the vehicle body. The conductive wire is configured to electrically connect the interior material side terminal and the vehicle body side terminal.

Abstract: An electrophotographic toner having a core-shell structure including a crystalline resin in its core region or a sea-island structure including a crystalline resin in its island region, wherein the toner has 1) a resistance of 5.0×1012 ?·cm or higher, 2) a dynamic viscosity coefficient of 3×103 Pa·s or higher at a temperature which is 50° C. higher than a melting point of the crystalline resin, and 3) a dynamic viscosity coefficient of 1×105 Pa·s or lower at a temperature which is 10° C. higher than the melting point of the crystalline resin.

Abstract: Disclosed is an aqueous ink comprising at least water, a plurality of water-soluble organic solvents and a coloring material. The coloring material is a pigment, and, it contains a pigment particle having at least one ionic group bonded to a surface of the pigment particle directly or via another atomic group. The plurality of water-soluble organic solvents have a good medium or good mediums for the pigment and a poor medium or poor mediums for the pigment. The poor medium does not solvate perfectly or substantially the pigment. The ionic group undergoes perfectly or substantially no ionic dissociation in the poor medium. Also, among the respective Ka values of the plurality of water-soluble organic solvents as determined by the Bristow method, the Ka value of the poor medium is maximum.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermoplastic-resin film and a thermoplastic-resin laminate film which have excellent conductivity and are further excellent in water vapor barrier properties and/or tackiness. As an example, a conductive thermoplastic-resin film is provided which comprises a mixture of a thermoplastic resin and a conductive material and having a volume resistivity, as measured by the four-probe method in accordance with JIS K-7194, of 10 ?·cm or lower and a moisture permeability, as measured at a film thickness of 100 ?m by JIS K-7129 method B in an atmosphere of 40° C. and a relative humidity (RH) of 90%, of 10 g/(m2·24 hr) or lower.

Abstract: The invention provides a toner for electrostatic latent image development comprising a first component and a second component which are isolated from each other and capable of forming a color when the first component and the second component are brought into reaction with each other, and a photo-curable composition containing either the first component or the second component, the photo-curable composition not being capable of forming a color when the photo-curable composition is not cured, that is irreversibly controlled to a state of being capable of forming a color by irradiating light having a specific wavelength at which the photo-curable composition is cured.

Abstract: To provide an optical information recording medium capable of attaining high density recording and reducing the leakage of signals to adjacent tracks (cross-talk). The optical information recording medium includes: a first substrate having a pre-groove; an undercoating layer, a dye recording layer, and a reflective layer provided in this order on the first substrate; and a second substrate bonded to the reflective layer via an adhesive layer or a sticky layer, in which the pre-groove has a track pitch of 0.1 to 0.6 ?m and a groove depth of 20 to 200 nm.

Abstract: The invention provides an aqueous ink comprising a polymer having hydroxyl groups and a pigment, which can provide images excellent in scratch resistance and highlighter resistance and can inhibit the seeping out phenomenon of the polymer and the deterioration of ejection characteristics even when it is stored for a long period of time. The aqueous ink comprises a polymer having hydroxyl groups, a pigment and a water-soluble organic solvent, wherein the water-soluble organic solvent comprises a polyhydric alcohol having a value of number of hydroxyl groups/number of carbon atoms in its molecule of 0.50 or less.

Abstract: An existing printer arranged to print data from a PC (personal computer) is used as the printer unit of a facsimile apparatus. The PC uses a printer driver dedicated to an existing printer (capable of performing the same processing as the printer unit of the facsimile apparatus) as a module, serving as application software for a facsimile-apparatus control unit, for printing the data from the PC. When printing data from the PC, a command uniquely directed to the facsimile apparatus is added to the printing data generated by the PC's printer driver, and the resultant data is transmitted to the facsimile apparatus. Upon receipt of the transmitted data, the facsimile apparatus removes the added command, thus restoring the printing data generated by the printer driver, and transmits the restored data to the printer unit to perform printing.

Abstract: The invention provides an aqueous ink comprising a polymer having hydroxyl groups and a pigment, which can provide images excellent in scratch resistance and highlighter resistance and can inhibit the seeping out phenomenon of the polymer and the deterioration of ejection characteristics even when it is stored for a long period of time. The aqueous ink comprises a polymer having hydroxyl groups, a pigment and a water-soluble organic solvent, wherein the water-soluble organic solvent comprises a poor medium for a polymer that is not adsorbed on the pigment of the polymer having hydroxyl groups, and wherein when the segment constituting the polymer that is not adsorbed on the pigment of the polymer having hydroxyl groups is comprised of a segment A having hydroxyl groups and a segment B having no hydroxyl group, at least one of the poor medium is a good medium for either one of the segment A and the Segment B.

Abstract: The invention provides an aqueous ink comprising a polymer having hydroxyl groups and a pigment, which can provide images excellent in scratch resistance and highlighter resistance and can inhibit the seeping out phenomenon of the polymer and the deterioration of storage stability and ejection characteristics even when it is stored for a long period of time. The aqueous ink comprises a polymer having hydroxyl groups and a pigment, wherein a proportion of a content of a polymer that is not adsorbed on the pigment out of the polymer having hydroxyl groups to the content of the pigment in the ink is 2.0 mass % or more, and a content (mass %) of the polymer that is not adsorbed on the pigment out of the polymer having hydroxyl groups is 0.20 mass % or less based on the total mass of the ink.

Abstract: In a sheet feeding apparatus, a contact-type sensor for detecting sheet-like documents stored in document tray is separated into upper document detector and a lower document detector arranged at upper and lower sides of the document tray, respectively. The sheet-like documents are detected separately with two actuators of the corresponding detectors. Accordingly, the requirement of a prior art for having a contact of the sensor increased in length in order to detect the sheets from a maximum to zero in the sheet storing unit can be eliminated.