Abstract: When a switch is set to off, and a switch is set to on, the voltage of a SigOut terminal is stabilized with a reference voltage, and a bias voltage is applied to a capacitor. Changing the switch from on to off, with the bias voltage retained in the capacitor, a detection signal which is input via a SigIn terminal is amplified with the reference voltage as a reference, and an amplified signal is output from the SigOut terminal.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a head for ejecting liquid, a cap unit for sealing an ejection surface of the head, a humidified air supply mechanism including a storing part for storing humidifying liquid and for performing a humidifying operation, a discharge unit discharges liquid from the head, a control unit for controlling the humidifying operation and a liquid discharge operation, and a detection unit for detecting whether the humidifying liquid is stored in the storing part. When the detection unit detects that no humidifying liquid is stored in the storing part, the control unit controls the discharge unit such that a liquid discharge amount from the head in the liquid discharge operation is larger than that of a case where the detection unit detects that the humidifying liquid is stored in the storing part.

Abstract: A multilayer conductive film includes a layer 1 including a conductive material containing a polymer material 1 having an alicyclic structure and conductive particles 1 and a layer 2 including a material having durability against positive electrode potential. The multilayer conductive film has stability in an equilibrium potential environment in a negative electrode and stability in an equilibrium potential environment in a positive electrode, has low electric resistance per unit area in the thickness direction, and has excellent barrier properties for a solvent of an electrolytic solution. A battery including a current collector employing the multilayer conductive film can achieve both weight reduction and durability.

Abstract: A smoke detector (1) includes: a light emitting section (6); a light receiving section (7); a smoke detecting section (12), the smoke detector (1) being configured to detect smoke or the like in a manner that the light receiving section (7) receives, via a light transmissive member (11), scattered light generated when light emitted from the light emitting section (6) is scattered in the smoke detecting section (12) due to particles of the smoke or the like; and a test light source (22) provided for detecting light receiving sensitivity of the light receiving section. The smoke detector (1) is further configured to detect a reduction in the light receiving sensitivity of the light receiving section (7) through detection of an increase in received light intensity of test light, which is emitted from the test light source (22) and is received by the light receiving section (7).

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a conveyor mechanism for conveying a recording medium in a conveying direction; a head including an ejection face including an ejection opening region having ejection openings, the region being longer than the recording medium in a conveyance perpendicular direction perpendicular to the conveying direction; a capping unit for selectively establishing a sealing state or an open state; an air supply opening and an air discharge opening; a humidification unit for performing a humidifying maintenance; a recording control unit for performing image recording; and a flushing control unit. The conveyor mechanism conveys the recording medium in the image recording such that one of opposite end portions of the ejection opening region and one of opposite edge portions of the recording medium are opposed to each other in the conveyance perpendicular direction when seen in a direction perpendicular to the ejection face.

Abstract: There is provided a capacitor with a reduced layout area. A capacitor has an electrode EL1 formed by using a first polysilicon layer, an electrode EL2 formed by using a second polysilicon layer over the first polysilicon layer, and electrodes EL3 to EL6 formed by using second through fifth metal wiring layers over the second polysilicon layer. An N-type well and the electrode EL1 make up a capacitor element 11, the electrodes EL1, EL2 make up a capacitor element 12, and the electrodes EL3 to EL6 make up a capacitor element 13. The capacitor elements 11 to 13 are coupled in parallel between terminals T1, T2.

Abstract: A general-purpose liquid-cooled engine delivers a coolant cooling an engine body to a radiator and delivers a cooling air to the radiator by use of a cooling fan to cool the coolant. A cover structure of the general-purpose liquid-cooled engine covers the engine body and the radiator. An engine cover is configured so as to allow the cooling air to be delivered to the radiator. A muffler cover covers a muffler disposed adjacent to an external surface of the engine cover. An exterior cover covers an entire engine including the engine cover and the muffler cover.

Abstract: A slide show display system with BGM includes at least one content provision device that stores at least one of image content and music content, a playback device that plays back the image content and the music content, and an information processing device that controls the playback device to display a slide show with BGM. The information processing device includes a content information notification portion that transmits information on the image content and the music content that will be played back to the playback device, as well as a playback request portion that makes a playback request to the playback device to play back the content. The playback device includes a content acquisition portion that acquires the content from the at least one content provision device and a content playback portion that plays back the content in response to the playback request from the information processing device.

Abstract: A bearing assembly includes an IC tag with information to be reliably exchanged between the IC tag and an external reader/writer, and a rolling bearing including outer and inner races and rolling elements disposed between the outer and inner races. The IC tag communicates with the external reader/writer device without contacting the reader/writer device, is attached to a metal member of the rolling bearing, includes a tag antenna, and is configured so information can be exchanged between the tag antenna and a reader/writer antenna of the reader/writer device by forming a closed magnetic circuit between the tag antenna and the reader/writer antenna. The IC tag is received in a hole in a metal member surface. The tag antenna includes at least two protrusions facing the opening of the hole and arranged so magnetic fluxes leaving/entering the protrusions pass inside the edge defining the hole opening and extend outside the hole.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a head for ejecting liquid, a cap unit for sealing an ejection surface of the head, a humidified air supply mechanism for performing a humidifying operation; a forcible discharge mechanism for performing a forcible discharge operation of forcibly discharging liquid from the ejection ports, a measuring unit for measuring a lapse time after a power supply becomes off and until the power supply becomes on, and a control unit for controlling the humidifying operation when the power supply becomes off, and controlling the forcible discharge operation when the power supply becomes on. When the power supply becomes on, the control unit controls the humidifying operation before performing the forcible discharge operation based on whether the lapse time measured by the measuring unit exceeds a predetermined time.

Abstract: An image processing device performs an image process on image data and outputs printing image data to a printing apparatus which performs printing using special luster ink having special luster, and the image processing device includes: an input unit that inputs the image data; a specification unit that specifies an ink amount set that is combination of ink amounts of inks used in printing by the printing apparatus on the basis of color information and luster degree information of the input image data; and an output unit that outputs the printing image data for printing based on the specified ink amount set to the printing apparatus, wherein the image data includes the color information that is information representing a color of an image and the luster degree information that is information representing a degree of luster of the image based on spectrum reflectances at a plurality of angles.

Abstract: Hydrogen which has entered into a pressure/differential pressure transmitter from external or internally generated hydrogen and hydrocarbons are converted to air bubbles within pressure guide paths. As a result, the indicated value drifts and an accurate numerical value is not output. A pressure/differential pressure transmitter includes a space formed between a diaphragm and a main body side wall face, pressure guide paths connected to the main body side wall face, a sealed liquid sealed in the space and the pressure guide paths to transmit a pressure received by the diaphragm to a sensor, and a hydrogen absorption material provided at least in the sealed liquid, on the main body side wall face, or in a part of a path between the main body side wall face and the sensor to absorb hydrogen atoms in the sealed liquid.

Abstract: A conductive film includes a layer 1 formed by a conductive material 1 that includes a polymer material 1 containing any of (1) an amine and an epoxy resin (where the epoxy resin and the amine are mixed in a ratio of 1.0 or more in terms of the ratio of the number of active hydrogen atoms in the amine with respect to the number of functional groups in the epoxy resin), (2) a phenoxy resin and an epoxy resin, (3) a saturated hydrocarbon polymer having a hydroxyl group, and (4) a curable resin and an elastomer and conductive particles 1. The conductive film has excellent stability in an equilibrium potential environment in a negative electrode and low electric resistance per unit area in the thickness direction. A multilayer conductive film including the conductive film achieves excellent interlayer adhesion, and using them as a current collector enables the production of a battery satisfying both weight reduction and durability.

Abstract: A gas sensor including a sensor element constituted by an oxygen-ion conductive solid electrolyte as a main component and detecting a predetermined gas component in a measurement gas includes: an external communication part having an opening opened to the outside, and introducing the measurement gas from the outside under a predetermined diffusion resistance; an internal space communicating with the external communication part; a first electrode formed on a surface of the internal space; a second electrode formed in a space different from the internal space; and a pumping cell operable to pump out oxygen existing in the internal space when a predetermined voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode. The thickness of the external communication part is 50% or more and 100% or less of the thickness of the internal space.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a drive device for a vehicle with an electric motor, for which at least a drive motor is utilized as a drive source, and the drive motor and a drive wheel are connected by means of a constant velocity universal joint. The drive device is provided with a drive motor. A drive shaft is connected to the drive motor via an inboard joint. The inboard joint is housed at the inner periphery section of the drive motor. An outer cup, a constituent of the inboard joint, is provided with a guide race on the inner periphery section in order for a roller member to slide. The outer periphery section of the outer cup is rotatably supported by the inner periphery section of the drive motor.

Abstract: A slide show display system with BGM includes at least one content provision device that stores at least one of image content and music content, a playback device that plays back the image content and the music content, and an information processing device that controls the playback device to display a slide show with BGM. The information processing device includes a content information notification portion that transmits information on the image content and the music content that will be played back to the playback device, as well as a playback request portion that makes a playback request to the playback device to play back the content. The playback device includes a content acquisition portion that acquires the content from the at least one content provision device and a content playback portion that plays back the content in response to the playback request from the information processing device.

Abstract: A vacuum thermally bonding apparatus is provided, in which while air is being prevented in vacuum from entering a bonding layer, an element is thermally bonded to a substrate under vacuum by forming the bonding layer. A lower end portion of an upper frame member is gas-tightly slidably sealed to a peripheral portion of the lower plate member to form a vacuum partition wall therein, and a pressurizing release film is contacted with an upper face of the element, and thermally softened in the atmospheric pressure. A vacuum chamber is evacuated to vacuum, and the lower plate member and an intermediate member are relatively moved in an approaching direction, so that an outer peripheral portion of the pressurizing release film is gas-tightly held between the upper face of the substrate-placing table of the lower plate member and a lower face of an inner frame body.

Abstract: To suppress deterioration of mechanical properties of a foam, by using a polyol system solution stored. A polyol system solution is prepared by using a polyether polyol (A1) having a hydroxy value of from 5 to 45 mgKOH/g and an average number of hydroxy groups of from 2 to 8, obtainable by subjecting an alkylene oxide to ring-opening addition polymerization to an initiator, in the presence of a double metal cyanide complex catalyst, to obtain an intermediate polyol; and subjecting ethylene oxide to a ring-opening addition polymerization in an amount of from 1 to 23 mol per 1 mol of the initiator to the intermediate polyol, in the presence of an alkali metal hydroxide as a polymerization catalyst, and a flexible polyurethane foam is produced by using the polyol system solution.

Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to determine whether a mechanical component can be reused, without consulting a specialist, by: attaching to the mechanical component an IC tag that records identification information that includes at least one among the type, manufacturing time, manufacturing lot, and manufacturing history of the mechanical component, and that enables the identification information to be externally read by an electromagnetic method; recording, in the memory unit of an inspection device that can read the IC tag, inspection items corresponding to the identification information and the evaluation criteria of the inspection items; displaying an inspection item corresponding to the mechanical component on a display unit; obtaining result information from an input unit; and comparing the result information to the evaluation criteria and displaying, on the display unit, whether the part can be reused.

Abstract: A rolling bearing includes rolling elements incorporated between an outer race and an inner race, a resin seal ring covering the opening of at least one end of the bearing space, and a filter covering an oil hole formed in the seal ring for capturing foreign matter contained in lubricating oil. The filter and the resin seal ring are integrated by insert molding. The filter and the seal ring are made of the same material. An annular lip portion, which is separate from the seal ring, is in contact with the outer race. An engaged portion provided on the radially inner side of the seal ring is engaged in a recess formed in the inner race such that, during thermal expansion of the seal ring, the engaged portion is engaged such that the seal ring is movable in the radial direction relative to the inner race.