Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute a determination process that determines that a deviation between a first change amount and a second change amount during a fuel cutoff operation is less than or equal to a threshold, and an anomaly diagnosing process that determines that an exhaust purification device is in a detached state when the determination process determines that the deviation is less than or equal to the threshold. The first change amount and the second change amount are change amounts per unit time of the temperature of exhaust gas on the upstream side and the downstream side of the exhaust purification device, respectively. The controller is configured to interrupt the determination process when the upstream-side temperature increases within a determination period.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for detecting a target nucleic acid in a sample. The methods include contacting the sample, in the presence of a polymerase and an endonuclease, with a first oligonucleotide that includes, in the 5? to 3? direction, a signal DNA generation sequence, an endonuclease recognition site, and a complementary sequence that has at least one abasic moiety and wherein the complementary sequence has a first complementary sequence that is complementary to at least a portion of the signal DNA generation sequence and a second complementary sequence that is complementary to the 3? end of the target nucleic acid. Also disclosed are methods that include a second oligonucleotide including, in the 5? to 3? direction, a second signal DNA generation sequence, an endonuclease recognition site, and a sequence that is homologous to the first signal DNA generation sequence of the first oligonucleotide and that optionally has at least one abasic site.

Abstract: A thermal head which forms an image on a recording medium by pressing a protruding portion on which heating elements are arranged on the recording medium while driving the heating elements to be heated includes a head body portion in which the protruding portion and a concave gap portion facing the protruding portion are formed and a heat conductive layer provided on the side of the protruding portion of the head body portion, in which the heat conductive layer includes an electric insulating layer securing electric insulation to the heating elements and a heat diffusion layer diffusing heat generated from the heating elements.

Abstract: A thermal head which forms an image on a recording medium by pressing a protruding portion on which heating elements are arranged on the recording medium while driving the heating elements to be heated includes a support substrate in which a concave gap portion facing the protruding portion is formed and a glaze layer provided on the support substrate and in which the protruding portion is formed, in which the glaze layer has a base layer stacked on the support substrate as well as forming a ceiling surface of the gap portion and a heat resistant layer stacked on the base layer and on which the heating elements are arranged.

Abstract: A thermal head includes a glass layer having a protruding section formed on one surface and a concave groove section formed on the other surface facing the protruding section, a heat generation resistor provided on the protruding section, and a pair of electrodes provided to both sides of the heat generation resistor, and a part of the heat generation resistor exposed between the pair of electrodes is defined as a heat generation section, the protruding section has a smaller curvature radius in both sides than a curvature radius in a central portion, and a width of the groove section is one of equal to and larger than a length of the heat generation section.

Abstract: When an interruption instruction occurs in an information processing apparatus including a CPU and a coprocessor, execution of a single dedicated instruction “GETACX Dm,Dn” performs saving of necessary data from all registers. “Dm” is a value output from a general register group 104 to a first data input bus 120. Each of calculation units implemented in a coprocessor 110 recognizes a value stored therein. If a value “Dm” specifies one of the calculation units, the specified calculation unit outputs, to a selector 116, data stored in a register included in the specified calculation unit. An implemented calculation unit information output circuit 117 stores therein the count of the calculation units implemented in the coprocessor 110. If a value of the first data input bus 120 is greater than the count of the calculation units, the implemented calculation unit information output circuit 117 outputs a value “1” to a flag register 102.

Abstract: A thermal head which forms an image on a recording medium by pressing a protruding portion on which heating elements are arranged on the recording medium while driving the heating elements to be heated includes a support substrate in which a concave gap portion facing the protruding portion is formed and a glaze layer provided on the support substrate and in which the protruding portion is formed, in which the glaze layer has a base layer stacked on the support substrate as well as forming a ceiling surface of the gap portion and a heat resistant layer stacked on the base layer and on which the heating elements are arranged.

Abstract: A thermal head which forms an image on a recording medium by pressing a protruding portion on which heating elements are arranged on the recording medium while driving the heating elements to be heated includes a head body portion in which the protruding portion and a concave gap portion facing the protruding portion are formed and a heat conductive layer provided on the side of the protruding portion of the head body portion, in which the heat conductive layer includes an electric insulating layer securing electric insulation to the heating elements and a heat diffusion layer diffusing heat generated from the heating elements.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a disk cartridge including a disk; a cartridge body in which the disk is rotatably accommodated, the cartridge body having a recording and/or reproducing window for exposing a part of the disk; a shutter mounted on the cartridge body so as to be movable between a closed position where the window is closed by the shutter and an open position where the window is opened by sliding the shutter; a shutter locking member adapted to engage a locking portion of the cartridge body when the shutter is in the closed position, thereby limiting the movement of the shutter in the direction of opening the window; a biasing member provided on the shutter for biasing the shutter locking member in the direction of engaging the shutter locking member with the locking portion of the cartridge body; and a deformation preventing member provided in the cartridge body at a position inside of the biasing member for preventing the deformation of the biasing member inward of the cartridge body.

Abstract: A recording and/or reproduction apparatus includes a chassis, a recording and/or reproduction device provided on the chassis so as to perform recording and/or reproduction on a disk cartridge, a cartridge holder for holding the disk cartridge, the cartridge holder being supported to be movable between a disk cartridge insertion/draw-out position and a recording/reproduction position relative to the chassis, an eject lever provided to be movable in the direction for insertion and draw-out of the disk cartridge relative to the chassis, a biasing device for biasing the eject lever in a disk cartridge discharging direction, a shutter unlocking member mounted to one side surface of the cartridge holder, and a shutter unlocking member movement restriction portion provided on the chassis and operable to restrict the shutter lock unlocking member from moving in the direction of spacing away from the one side surface when the cartridge holder is located in the recording/reproduction position.

Abstract: A disk cartridge is provided which includes an optical disk (2), a cartridge body (5) having formed therein a head opening (13) through which a part of the optical disk (2) is exposed to outside in a range between the inner and outer radii thereof, a shutter member (15) supported movably on the cartridge body (5) to uncover and cover the head opening (13), and a two-way forcing mechanism (38) to force the shutter member (15) toward any selected one of positions to cover and uncover the head opening (13). The two-way forcing mechanism (38) forces the shutter member (15) toward any selected one of the positions to cover and uncover the head opening (13) correspondingly to a position of the shutter member (15) relative to the head opening (13).

Abstract: The present invention provides lock release means that allows spring constant of the lock release means to be set to any desired value without regard to a material used for a cartridge holder. A disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: recording and/or reproducing means disposed in a chassis; a cartridge holder supported on the chassis movably between an insertion and withdrawal position, at which a disk cartridge is inserted or removed, and a recording and reproducing position, at which the disk cartridge is recorded or reproduced by the recording and/or reproducing means; an eject lever disposed on an upper surface of the chassis so as to be movable in a disk cartridge insertion and withdrawal direction; eject lever lock means disposed on the upper surface of the chassis; and lock release means mounted on the cartridge holder such that a leading end side of the lock release means advances into the cartridge holder from an upper surface of the cartridge holder.

Abstract: A printer apparatus is disclosed. The printer includes: a thermal head having heat generating elements arranged in the form of a line extending longer than the width of a printing medium in the width direction of the printing medium substantially orthogonal to the conveying direction thereof; and a platen disposed opposite to the thermal head with a conveying path for the printing medium interposed between them so as to cooperate with the platen to sandwich the printing medium beyond the width of the printing medium with an ink ribbon interposed. The platen is put in contact with an end portion of the thermal head located beyond the width of the printing medium.

Abstract: When an interruption instruction occurs in an information processing apparatus including a CPU and a coprocessor, execution of a single dedicated instruction “GETACX Dm,Dn” performs saving of necessary data from all registers. “Dm” is a value output from a general register group 104 to a first data input bus 120. Each of calculation units implemented in a coprocessor 110 recognizes a value stored therein. If a value “Dm” specifies one of the calculation units, the specified calculation unit outputs, to a selector 116, data stored in a register included in the specified calculation unit. An implemented calculation unit information output circuit 117 stores therein the count of the calculation units implemented in the coprocessor 110. If a value of the first data input bus 120 is greater than the count of the calculation units, the implemented calculation unit information output circuit 117 outputs a value “1” to a flag register 102.

Abstract: A disk recording/reproducing apparatus includes a chassis rotatably supporting a holder for storing a disk cartridge; an eject lever movably disposed in the chassis in an insertion/removal direction of the disk cartridge and movably in a direction toward or away from the chassis. The eject lever is rotated by being pushed by the disk cartridge 1 inserted into the holder. A cartridge drop preventive mechanism prevents the disk cartridge ejected by the eject lever from dropping from the cartridge holder. The cartridge drop preventive mechanism is formed from a flat spring disposed on one side surface of the holder and makes a sliding contact with one side surface of the disk cartridge during unloading of the cartridge so as to give the disk cartridge a braking force. This arrangement can prevent the disk cartridge from jumping out and dropping off from the cartridge holder during ejection.

Abstract: An execution program holder holds an execution program that includes execution instructions and configuration instructions that are executed together by a processor. A reconfigurable processing device comprises a programmable device that can reconfigure a circuit, and executes process contents that are instructed through executing the execution instructions by the processor. A circuit information holding and configuration controller holds circuit information that is designated when the processor executes the configuration instructions, and incorporates the reconfigurable processing device with that circuit information to configure a circuit.

Abstract: A thermal head includes a glass layer having a protruding section formed on one surface and a concave groove section formed on the other surface facing the protruding section, a heat generation resistor provided on the protruding section, and a pair of electrodes provided to both sides of the heat generation resistor, and a part of the heat generation resistor exposed between the pair of electrodes is defined as a heat generation section, the protruding section has a smaller curvature radius in both sides than a curvature radius in a central portion, and a width of the groove section is one of equal to and larger than a length of the heat generation section.

Abstract: A thermal head includes a base layer having a predetermined thickness and provided with a substantially semicylindrical protruding section integrally formed on one surface of the base layer, a heat generation resistor formed on the protruding section, and a pair of electrodes formed on both sides of the heat generation resistor, wherein a part of each of the heat generation resistors exposed between the pair of electrodes is defined as a heat generation section, and the base layer is provided with a groove section formed on the opposite side of the protruding section and having opening on the other surface of the base layer.

Abstract: A processor which executes positive conversion processing, which converts coded data into uncoded data, and saturation calculation processing, which rounds a value to an appropriate number of bits, at high speed. When a positive conversion saturation calculation instruction “MCSST D1” is decoded, the sum-product result register 6 outputs its held value to the path P1. The comparator 22 compares the magnitude of the held value of the sum-product result register 6 with the coded 32-bit integer “0x0000_00FF”. The polarity judging unit 23 judges whether the eighth bit of the value held by the sum-product result register 6 is “ON”. The multiplexer 24 outputs one of the maximum value “0x0000_00FF” generated by the constant generator 21, the zero value “0x0000_0000” generated by the zero generator 25, and the held value of the sum-product result register 6 to the data bus 18.

Abstract: A processor which executes positive conversion processing, which converts coded data into uncoded data, and saturation calculation processing, which rounds a value to an appropriate number of bits, at high speed. When a positive conversion saturation calculation instruction “MCSST D1” is decoded, the sum-product result register 6 outputs its held value to the path P1. The comparator 22 compares the magnitude of the held value of the sum-product result register 6 with the coded 32-bit integer “0x0000_00FF”. The polarity judging unit 23 judges whether the eighth bit of the value held by the sum-product result register 6 is “ON”. The multiplexer 24 outputs one of the maximum value “0x0000_00FF” generated by the constant generator 21, the zero value “0x0000_0000” generated by the zero generator 25, and the held value of the sum-product result register 6 to the data bus 18.