Abstract: A novel technique is provided that analyzes the state of life using multivariate data relating to life. A state visualization device includes: a coarse-graining portion configured to perform coarse-graining on values corresponding to a plurality of items included in sample data; a model creation portion configured to obtain, using binarized values, a mathematical model for calculating energies each fitting a frequency of occurrence of a state represented by a combination of values corresponding to the items; a graph creation portion configured to create a graph in which the state is placed in two-dimensional space; and an interpolation processing portion configured to create a landscape image by smoothing and interpolating a discrete graph.

Abstract: A novel technique is provided that analyzes the state of life using multivariate data relating to life. A state visualization device includes: a coarse-graining portion configured to perform coarse-graining on values corresponding to a plurality of items included in sample data; a model creation portion configured to obtain, using binarized values, a mathematical model for calculating energies each fitting a frequency of occurrence of a state represented by a combination of values corresponding to the items; a graph creation portion configured to create a graph in which the state is placed in two-dimensional space; and an interpolation processing portion configured to create a landscape image by smoothing and interpolating a discrete graph.

Abstract: To provide a lid body for a disposer apparatus which can keep inside of the disposer apparatus clean with ease. A washing-agent-reception portion is provided on a side of a rear surface of the lid body and at an inside of the body portion. The washing-agent-reception portion receives a washing agent package. When changing over drive of the disposer apparatus to a crushing operation for crushing garbage, water supply into the inside of the hopper starts concurrently with the crushing of the garbage by the crushing unit. Water to be supplied is supplied to the inside of the hopper through the lid body as a pathway thereof. At this time, the water passing through the lid body is supplied to the inside of the hopper as washing liquid with it dissolving washing agent. When driving the crushing unit, washing of the inside of the hopper is executed by the washing liquid concurrently with the crushing operation, which keeps the inside of the hopper clean.

Abstract: A turntable, swing hammers and fixed teeth of a garbage disposer are combined with a cylindrical pipe in one body, and arranged to be attachable/detachable with respect to a hopper. A guide pipe branching upward from an upstream upper end portion of a S-trap formed in a drainage pipe in the garbage disposer is provided, and a water injection nozzle is set on the guide pipe.

Abstract: A turntable, swing hammers and fixed teeth of a garbage disposer are combined with a cylindrical pipe in one body, and arranged to be attachable/detachable with respect to a hopper. A guide pipe branching upward from an upstream upper end portion of a S-trap formed in a drainage pipe in the garbage disposer is provided, and a water injection nozzle is set on the guide pipe.

Abstract: A turntable, swing hammers and fixed teeth of a garbage disposer are combined with a cylindrical pipe in one body, and arranged to be attachable/detachable with respect to a hopper. A guide pipe branching upward from an upstream upper end portion of a S-trap formed in a drainage pipe in the garbage disposer is provided, and a water injection nozzle is set on the guide pipe.

Abstract: A controlling member (a controlling pin 10) is inserted through an insertion hole 7 of a mold 1 and projected into a cavity 6. After a pipe P as an insert member is arranged at a predetermined position in the cavity 6, the pipe P is held in the cavity 6 by inserting a tip of the controlling pin 10 into a hole h of the pipe P at the end p1, or by inserting the end p1 of the pipe P into a cave 21 of the controlling member. A molten aluminum alloy is then poured through a gate 5 into the cavity 6 under such the condition, to enclose the pipe P with the aluminum alloy. Dislocation of the pipe P caused by kinetic and thermal energies of the poured aluminum alloy is suppressed by the controlling pin 10 or block 20 at the end p1. Since the enclosed pipe P has its end p1 opened at a predetermined position, a cast product obtained in this way can be used as a brake caliper or the like having an inner hydraulic circuit.

Abstract: A ramp wherein the amount of deformation in the front end edges of guiding parts caused by thermal expansion. The ramp includes at least two guiding parts individually formed for each suspension arm and made of a polymeric material having a small friction coefficient for guiding the suspension arm by sliding into a accommodation zone, and a guide supporting member made of a material having a thermal expansion coefficient smaller than that of the polymeric material of the guiding part for supporting each guiding part at a predetermined position. The guide supporting member has guide support holes which are located in zones to be contacted with the associated guiding parts, are not contacted with associated recording disks, and are engaged with the associated guiding parts at such positions that distances to the front end edges of the guiding parts become shortest. Each of the guiding parts has a projection.

Abstract: An intermediate transfer element has at least one or more elastic layers and a toner releasing layer provided on the surface of the elastic layer and has a surface shape including minute projections up to 60 &mgr;m and at least 20 &mgr;m high. By providing the intermediate transfer element with such projections, easy separation with respect to a poorly separable recording medium, such as thin paper is achieved, and an image free from image defects, such as white speckles.

Abstract: A ramp wherein the amount of deformation in the front end edges of guiding parts caused by thermal expansion. The ramp includes at least two guiding parts individually formed for each suspension arm and made of a polymeric material having a small friction coefficient for guiding the suspension arm by sliding into a accommodation zone, and a guide supporting member made of a material having a thermal expansion coefficient smaller than that of the polymeric material of the guiding part for supporting each guiding part at a predetermined position. The guide supporting member has guide support holes which are located in zones to be contacted with the associated guiding parts, are not contacted with associated recording disks, and are engaged with the associated guiding parts at such positions that distances to the front end edges of the guiding parts become shortest. Each of the guiding parts has a projection.

Abstract: A controlling member (a controlling pin 10) is inserted through an insertion hole 7 of a mold 1 and projected into a cavity 6. After a pipe P as an insert member is arranged at a predetermined position in the cavity 6, the pipe P is held in the cavity 6 by inserting a tip of the controlling pin 10 into a hole h of the pipe P at the end p1, or by inserting the end p1 of the pipe P into a cave 21 of the controlling member. A molten aluminum alloy is then poured through a gate 5 into the cavity 6 under such the condition, to enclose the pipe P with the aluminum alloy. Dislocation of the pipe P caused by kinetic and thermal energies of the poured aluminum alloy is suppressed by the controlling pin 10 or block 20 at the end p1. Since the enclosed pipe P has its end p1 opened at a predetermined position, a cast product obtained in this way can be used as a brake caliper or the like having an inner hydraulic circuit.

Abstract: In the present invention, a mother board is fixed perpendicularly to the center of a support table of a system. On one side of the mother board, any number of floppy disk drives and hard disk drives are mounted. On the other side of the mother board, a power source and any number of function modules are mounted. The function modules include a CPU, a memory, an input/output controller, a communication controller, etc. Each of the function modules and units is stored in its own case. The function modules are airtight. Thus, since each unit and function module is protected in its own case, large case for covering the whole system is not required. Therefore, the units and function modules are well ventilated and have a good heat radiation effect. Each case also acts as a heat radiator and eliminates the necessity of a forcible cooling unit, and the fault rate is thus reduced.

Abstract: In the invention, an outer case is formed of a transmissive hard synthetic resin, a liquid crystal display board is housed in the outer case in a floating state relative to an inner bottom surface of the outer case, and the liquid crystal display board is surrounded with a transmissive synthetic resin poured into the outer case so that anti-moisture resistance is improved.

Abstract: A thermal head for a thermal-transfer or heat-sensitive printer has a silicon substrate having a projection. A porous silicon layer having a small thermal conductivity is formed on the silicon substrate so as to cover at least the projection on the silicon substrate. A heat-generating resistor layer is formed on the porous silicon oxide layer in a region above the projection of the silicon substrate. A conductor layer is formed on the heat-generating layer so as to expose the portion of the heat-generating resistor layer which is right above the projection of the silicon substrate and which serves as a heat-generating portion. The heat-generating portion and the conductor layer are covered by a protective layer.

Abstract: An electrophotographic apparatus comprising an electrophotographic photosensitive member, a means of forming an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive member by an electrostatic method, a means of developing the latent image with a developer, a means of conveying a recording medium onto which the developer image is transferred, and a means of transferring the developer image onto the recording medium, wherein, a guide installed in the means of conveying the recording medium is partly coated with a resin film, with which the recording medium is brought into contact, so as to have a volume resistivity of 10.sup.12 to 10.sup.16 .OMEGA.cm at normal temperature and humidity, that is, at 20.degree. C. and 50% RH and abrasion loss of 5 mg or below as measured in accordance with Taber's test method (load 1.0 Kg, revolution 70 rpm, total number of revolutions 1.times.10.sup.3).

Abstract: In a dynamoelectric machine having a stator assembly of coil windings and a core, a heat-dissipating, uninflammable, electro-insulative housing encapsulates the coil windings and the core. The housing is made of a cured molded article or material formed of a resin-filler composition which comprises a liquid unsaturated polyester resin, a finely divided calcium carbonate powder, an inorganic mineral particulate having a particle size larger than that of the calcium carbonate powder, a chopped glass fiber and an aluminum hydroxide powder, wherein the ratio by weight of the calcium carbonate to the mineral particulate is 0.3 to 4, the ratio of the weight of glass fiber to the total weight of the composition is 0.05 to 0.25, the ratio of the weight of the polyester resin to the total weight of the composition is 0.1 to 0.4, the weight ratio of the calcium carbonate powder, the mineral particulate and the glass fiber to the total weight of the composition is 0.15 to 0.

Abstract: A copper barrier type, nuclear fuel cladding is produced by forming an oxide layer on the inner wall surface of a tube of zirconium or zirconium alloy and then applying electroless copper plating to the oxide layer with a solution containing at least a copper salt, a complexing agent, a reducing agent, and 2,2'-dipyridyl, or further together with polyalkylene glycol as a plating solution. A good adhesiveness is obtained between the copper barrier layer and the oxide layer.

Abstract: Apparatus for applying chemical plating to inner surfaces of tubular members including a tank for storing a plating solution, a table for supporting a plurality of tubular members to be simultaneously plated, a plating solution distributing member connected to the storage tank via a plating solution supply line mounting a pump, and a plating solution collecting member connected to the storage tank via a plating solution return line. To provide a liquidtight seal, each tubular member to be plated is connected at its plating solution inlet end to the distributing member through a first connector and at its plating solution outlet end to the collecting member through a second connector. Each tubular member supported on the table, which is suitably inclined to allow hydrogen gas to be released through the plating solution outlet end of each tubular member to be plated, is encased in a supporting member formed of insulating material and comprising detachably attached two halves.

Abstract: A color developer sheet sensitized in a color developing property on contact with a chromogenic material and improved in the light-resistance of the developed color, which comprises a support sheet and a coating composition comprising an organic color developer and, as a binder, a latex of a copolymer prepared by polymerization of a mixture essentially consisting of about 20 to 70% by weight of one or more aliphatic conjugated diolefin monomers, about 0.5 to 15% by weight of one or more unsaturated carboxylic acid monomers and about 15 to 79.5% by weight of one or more other olefin monomers copolymerizable with them and having a gel content of about 95 to 100% by weight applied onto a surface of the said support sheet to make a color developer layer.

Abstract: A color developer sheet sensitized in a color developing property on contact with a chromogenic material and improved in the light-resistance of the developed color, which comprises a support sheet and a coating composition comprising an organic color developer and, as a binder, a latex of a copolymer prepared by polymerization of a mixture essentially consisting of about 20 to 70% by weight of one or more aliphatic conjugated diolefin monomers, about 0.5 to 15% by weight of one or more unsaturated carboxylic acid monomers and about 15 to 79.5% by weight of one or more other olefin monomers copolymerizable with them and having a gel content of about 95 to 100% by weight applied onto a surface of the said support sheet to make a color developer layer.