Abstract: A printer includes a recording medium holding unit that holds a long, wound strip-like recording medium to enable the recording medium to be pulled out from a front end thereof, a recording unit that pulls out the recording medium held by the recording medium holding unit to a side higher in a vertical direction than a position for pulling out from the recording medium holding unit and that executes a recording operation for the pulled-out recording medium, and a second cutter mechanism disposed under the recording medium holding unit and that cuts the recording medium for which the recording operation is executed by the recording unit at the back end thereof separated from the front end by a predetermined length. A drawing position of the recording medium into an inversion path is arranged to be lower than the recording medium holding unit and the recording unit in the vertical direction.

Abstract: In order to prevent degradation in print quality which can come from matter generated from an ink ribbon and adhering to a thermal head, the thermal transfer printer transports an ink ribbon which has characteristics such that the amount of matter generated from the ink ribbon by transfer and adhering to the thermal head has a peak at predetermined transfer energy and reduces in an energy range higher than the predetermined transfer energy with increase in transfer energy, transfers ink and protective material onto paper in this order from the ink ribbon on which the ink and the protective material are repeatedly arranged in a longitudinal direction thereof, and adjusts transfer energy for the protective material to a value within a predetermined range.

Abstract: A light-receiving element includes an on-chip lens; an interconnection layer; and a semiconductor layer that is disposed between the on-chip lens and the interconnection layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first voltage application unit to which a first voltage is applied, a second voltage application unit to which a second voltage different from the first voltage is applied, a first charge detection unit that is disposed at the periphery of the first voltage application unit, a second charge detection unit that is disposed at the periphery of the second voltage application unit, and a charge discharge region that is provided on an outer side of an effective pixel region. For example, the present technology is applicable to a light-receiving element that generates distance information in a ToF method, or the like.

Abstract: An electrode unit of a joining apparatus includes an abutting section provided with a tapered outer circumferential surface that contacts a tapered pressure-receiving surface by being inserted into an inside of a first metal member. The tapered outer circumferential surface inclines in a direction of getting closer to an axial center of the abutting section from one end side to another end side. At least part of the abutting section has a thickness elastically deformable in such a manner that the tapered outer circumferential surface aligns with the tapered pressure-receiving surface during application of a pressurizing force to the first metal member and a second metal member.

Abstract: A joining apparatus includes an electrifying/pressurizing head provided with an abutting surface contacting a pressure-receiving surface of a first metal member, joins the first metal member and a second metal member by electrification and pressurization employing the electrifying/pressurizing head, and obtains a joined body in which a joining interface inclines with respect to the pressure-receiving surface. The abutting surface includes: an electrode section capable of electrifying the first metal member; and an insulating section configured from an insulating material. At least a shortest portion where a distance from the joining interface will be shortest, of the pressure-receiving surface will be a non-contact-with-electrode section of non-contact with the electrode section, and the insulating section contacts at least part of the non-contact-with-electrode section.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording device which prevents bubbles generated in ink due to replacement of a component such as a recording head from entering a tank. The ink-jet recording device includes: a tank which stores ink; a recording head to which the ink in the tank is supplied; a supply flow path for allowing the ink in the tank to flow to the recording head; a collection flow path for returning the ink discharged from the recording head to the tank; and a degassing module which is located downstream of the recording head and upstream of the tank in the collection flow path and when a condition to perform a degassing process to remove bubbles contained in the ink discharged from the recording head is satisfied, performs the degassing process.

Abstract: Provided is an optical filter, including an absorbing glass substrate composed of phosphate-based glass or fluorophosphate-based glass; a bonding layer with a single layer structure; and a resin layer, wherein the resin layer is provided on the absorbing glass substrate through the bonding layer, wherein the bonding layer includes a Si atom and one or more selected from a Ti atom, a Zr atom, and an Al atom; or an optical filter, including an absorbing glass substrate composed of phosphate-based glass or fluorophosphate-based glass; and a resin layer, wherein the resin layer includes a Si atom and one or more selected from a Ti atom, a Zr atom, and an Al atom, and is provided on the absorbing glass substrate.

Abstract: In order to prevent degradation in print quality which can come from matter generated from an ink ribbon and adhering to a thermal head, the thermal transfer printer transports an ink ribbon which has characteristics such that the amount of matter generated from the ink ribbon by transfer and adhering to the thermal head has a peak at predetermined transfer energy and reduces in an energy range higher than the predetermined transfer energy with increase in transfer energy, transfers ink and protective material onto paper in this order from the ink ribbon on which the ink and the protective material are repeatedly arranged in a longitudinal direction thereof, and adjusts transfer energy for the protective material to a value within a predetermined range.

Abstract: A first feeding unit is configured that is provided in a first printing unit that includes a first recording unit that executes a recording operation for a long strip-like recording medium pulled out from a first holding unit that holds the recording medium in a wound state. The first feeding unit further includes a pair of feeding rollers that sort the recording medium discharged from the first printing unit, to the side of a second printing unit stacked on the first printing unit or to the side opposite to that of the second printing unit. The first feeding unit temporarily accommodates the sorted recording medium and thereafter, feeds the recording medium to a guide path, and sorts the recording medium fed by the pair of feeding rollers, to the side of the second printing unit using a sorting part.

Abstract: In a printer that drives by a ribbon motor (302), a winding axle that holds an ink ribbon positioned between a thermal head that performs a photographic printing operation with respect to a photographic medium conveyed along a sub-scanning direction and a platen that opposes the photographic print head with the photographic medium between the photographic print head and the platen, a flywheel (303) is coupled to a shaft of the ribbon motor (302), and a rotational force of the ribbon motor (302) is transmitted to the winding axle, via a worm gear (501) and a helical gear (502).

Abstract: A welded portion forming structure forms a welded portion that joins a valve seat and a cylinder head main body. If the distance in a radial direction between a vertex of a corner, which is formed by a first surface and a second surface of the convex portion, and the first origin portion is assumed to be A, and the distance in the radial direction between the vertex and the second origin portion is assumed to be B, then a relation that satisfies all of A>0, A?B, and B?0 holds. Moreover, an angle which a first joint surface of the valve seat forms with an axial direction and an angle which the second joint surface forms with the axial direction are equal.

Abstract: A vehicular display control device includes a video acquiring unit configured to acquire video data captured by a rear camera configured to capture a rear view of a vehicle, a frequency detecting unit configured to detect a frequency of a driver's action in the vehicle for changing a range of view with respect to a display installed in front of the driver, a video data generating unit configured to clip, when the frequency of the driver's action detected by the frequency detecting unit becomes high, a clipping range in the captured video data acquired by the video acquiring unit wider than a clipping range before the frequency of the driver's action becomes high to generate video data for a predetermined time, and a display controller configured to cause a display installed in front of the driver to display the video data generated by the video data generating unit.

Abstract: There is provided an on-vehicle display controller including a video data acquiring unit configured to acquire captured video data obtained through imaging by an imager that is configured to image surroundings of a vehicle, a detecting unit configured to detect at least one following vehicle in the captured video data, an identifying unit configured to identify a lower part of the following vehicle detected by the detecting unit, a display video data generating unit configured to set a clipping area of the captured video data so as to include the lower part of the following vehicle identified by the identifying unit, and generate display video data by performing clipping the clipping area from the captured video data, and a display controller configured to cause a display used in the vehicle to display the display video data generated by the display video data generating unit.

Abstract: A printer includes a recording medium holding unit that holds a long, wound strip-like recording medium to enable the recording medium to be pulled out from a front end thereof, a recording unit that pulls out the recording medium held by the recording medium holding unit to a side higher in a vertical direction than a position for pulling out from the recording medium holding unit and that executes a recording operation for the pulled-out recording medium, and a second cutter mechanism disposed under the recording medium holding unit and that cuts the recording medium for which the recording operation is executed by the recording unit at the back end thereof separated from the front end by a predetermined length. A drawing position of the recording medium into an inversion path is arranged to be lower than the recording medium holding unit and the recording unit in the vertical direction.

Abstract: To provide granules for the production of silicate glass, said granules being less likely to adhere even if heated at a high temperature exceeding 800° C. A method for producing granules, which has a step of mixing a glass raw material composition composed essentially of an alkali metal source, an alkaline earth metal source and a powdery silicon source, with water, followed by compression molding, and which is characterized in that the glass raw material composition contains at least 50 mass % of the silicon source, and at least 10 mass % in total of the alkali metal source and the alkaline earth metal source, as calculated as oxides, based on 100 mass % of the silicate glass obtainable from the granules, the alkali metal source contains an alkali metal carbonate, and D90 representing the particle size at a cumulative volume of 90% in the particle size accumulation curve of the alkaline earth metal source is at most 100 ?m.

Abstract: An optical device production apparatus includes: an manufacturing head that manufactures an optical device by successively building layers of optical material; and a controller that acquires a result of measurement of an optical performance of an optical system including the optical device manufactured. The controller controls the manufacturing head to terminate manufacturing the optical device on the condition that the result of measurement acquired by the controller meets a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, which recognizes an operation input using a pointed position, includes a position acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one pointed position pointed on a display screen; a pressure acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to pressure corresponding to each pointed position, acquired by the position acquisition unit; and a recognition unit configured to, in a case where a plurality of pointed positions pointed on the display screen exist at a same point-in-time, use a pointed position of the plurality of pointed positions excluding a pointed position regarding which a decision is made based on information relating to pressure acquired by the pressure acquisition unit that the pointed position does not make up input used for an operation of the information processing apparatus, recognize the operation.

Abstract: A first feeding unit is configured that is provided in a first printing unit that includes a first recording unit that executes a recording operation for a long strip-like recording medium pulled out from a first holding unit that holds the recording medium in a wound state. The first feeding unit further includes a pair of feeding rollers that sort the recording medium discharged from the first printing unit, to the side of a second printing unit stacked on the first printing unit or to the side opposite to that of the second printing unit. The first feeding unit temporarily accommodates the sorted recording medium and thereafter, feeds the recording medium to a guide path, and sorts the recording medium fed by the pair of feeding rollers, to the side of the second printing unit using a sorting part.

Abstract: When sub-images are sequentially transferred and connected together to form a larger image than would be possible with a single transfer operation, the occurrence of a color change in the overlapping region of the sub-images is suppressed and the width of the overlapping region is reduced as much as possible. Color image data are divided into image data of two sub-images containing an overlapping region and having edges that coincide for each color ink transferred to paper. Color values of the color image data in the overlapping region are converted by using a color conversion factor group created in advance for each position on the overlapping region so as to cancel out a color change that occurs in the overlapping region when the sub-images are transferred with one overlapping the other. The image data of the sub-images are corrected by adjusting converted color values in the overlapping region by using a correction factor for print density at each position on the overlapping region.

Abstract: Irregularities in the density that can occur in printed images of a thermal transfer printer due to mechanical variations or variations in thermal characteristics in the thermal head are more easily and accurately corrected as compared to cases not having the features of the disclosed invention.