Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejection head to eject liquid, a recovery unit, a housing, a discharge unit, a casing including the discharge unit and the housing, and a liquid receptacle. The recovery unit maintains liquid ejecting performance of the liquid ejection head. The housing houses a container that accommodates liquid received by the recovery unit. The discharge unit discharges the liquid received by the recovery unit to the container. The liquid receptacle is disposed below the discharge unit in a direction of gravity in the casing and includes a first groove extending in a first direction crossing the direction of gravity and a second groove extending in a second direction crossing the direction of gravity and the first direction.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a liquid tank unit, a printing head, and a supply tube unit. The liquid tank unit includes first and second liquid tanks that store liquid and are arranged in parallel to each other. The printing head ejects liquid from the first and second tanks while moving in a main scanning direction. The supply tube unit includes a first supply tube connecting the first liquid tank to the printing head and includes a second supply tube coupled in parallel to the first supply tube and connecting the second liquid tank to the printing head. The second supply tube transitions from a connected tube state in which the second and first supply tubes are coupled in parallel to a single tube state by being separated from the first supply tube, passes across the first supply tube, and is connected to a connection port of the second liquid tank.

Abstract: A liquid storage container includes a storage portion configured to store liquid, an opening portion provided on a first surface and configured to allow injection of the liquid into the storage portion, a receiving portion consisting of the first surface and a wall disposed around the opening portion on the first surface, and a liquid holding unit configured to hold the liquid guided by a guiding portion from the liquid receiving portion to outside of the liquid receiving portion. The liquid holding unit includes a second surface different from the first surface of the liquid storage container and a flexible member.

Abstract: A performance system can include a primary unit and a secondary unit. The secondary unit is provided for an electronic musical instrument that can be set to a first mode that enables performance by a single individual and a second mode that enables performance by a plurality of individuals, has connecting portions enabling connection of one or a plurality of receivers having at least a receiving function, and is able to communicate with the primary unit. The performance can also include an determining portion for determining whether or not a plurality of the receivers is connected to the connecting portion, and a transmitting portion for transmitting, to the primary unit, a notification that the second mode has been set, upon determining that a plurality of the receivers has been connected to the connecting portion.

Abstract: Provided is a column tube for chromatography that can prevent a peak shape abnormality referred to as a foot in a resulting chromatogram. The object is accomplished by the column tube for chromatography, through which a fluid flows, this column tube including a plurality of polishing traces extending on an inner circumferential surface of the column tube in a flow direction of the fluid.

Abstract: The disclosure improves the flexibility of arrangement of a separator provided at an end of a touch sensor unit to ensure electrical insulation. A sensor body included in a touch sensor unit includes a tubular insulator that is elastically deformed when an external force is applied; linear electrodes that are provided inside the tubular insulator and come into contact with each other as the tubular insulator is elastically deformed; a resistor disposed on an outer side of an end of the tubular insulator; connection wires connecting the linear electrodes and the resistor; a separator interposed between the connection wires and preventing contact between the connection wires; a mold part including at least the connection wires, the resistor, and the separator; and a cover member covering at least a part of the connection wires, the resistor, and the separator via the mold part.

Abstract: The disclosure realizes a touch sensor unit including a mold part that can restrict the movement of a sensor body embedded in a sensor holder. A touch sensor unit includes a sensor body, a sensor holder in which the sensor body is embedded, and a resistor disposed outside the sensor holder and electrically connected to the sensor body. The sensor body includes a tubular insulator that is elastically deformed when an external force is applied, and a plurality of linear electrodes that are provided inside the tubular insulator and come into contact with each other as the tubular insulator is elastically deformed. At least an end of the sensor holder, an end of the tubular insulator protruding from an end surface of the sensor holder, and the resistor are molded together with a mold part which is a resin molded body.

Abstract: An information processing system acquires a detection signal corresponding to each manipulated operator, among the plurality of operators, that has been manipulated by a user and identifies a manipulation amount or intensity of each of the plurality of operators based on the acquired detection signal. The system further identifies a chord that corresponds, from among the plurality of operators, to a combination of detected two or more manipulated operators. The identifying of the chord includes determining a root note pitch included in the chord based on the manipulation amount or intensity of each of the detected two or more manipulated operators.

Abstract: A sensor unit manufacturing method includes: a core metal insertion process of inserting a core metal member having a length dimension smaller than a length dimension of a core metal accommodation portion into a predetermined location (a section of a curving portion) extending along a longitudinal direction of the core metal accommodation portion; and a bending process of bending the section (the section of the curving portion) of a fixation base portion, into which the core metal member is inserted, following a curved shape of a sensor bracket.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a manufacturing method of a touch sensor unit that includes a tubular insulator housing a plurality of electrodes, and the plurality of electrodes housed in the tubular insulator are prevented from being fixed in a short-circuited state by the resin flowing into the tubular insulator. The manufacturing method of the touch sensor unit includes: a first process of disposing an end of a sensor holder, a resistor, connection wires, and a separator, which are included in a mold part provided at an end of the touch sensor unit, in a mold; and a second process of supplying molten resin into the mold in a state where the tubular insulator housing linear electrodes is pressed from an outer side of the sensor holder in the mold. In the second process, the tubular insulator is pressed within a range where the tubular insulator and an insertion protrusion overlap.

Abstract: A retractor of a seat belt apparatus includes a spool that is configured to wind the seat belt while allowing the seat belt to be pulled out, a motor that includes a shaft coupled to the spool and generates a rotational resistance force against the spool rotating in a direction to pull out the seat belt, the rotational resistance force corresponding to the rotation of the spool and the shaft caused by pulling out of the seat belt, a rotational resistance member that is coupled to the spool and generates a rotational resistance force against the spool rotating in the direction to pull out the seat belt when the seat belt is pulled out in the event of vehicle collision, and a reducing mechanism that reduces the rotation of the spool and transmits a reduced rotation to the shaft.

Abstract: A sensor unit manufacturing method includes: a core metal insertion process of inserting a core metal member having a length dimension smaller than a length dimension of a core metal accommodation portion into a predetermined location (a section of a curving portion) extending along a longitudinal direction of the core metal accommodation portion; and a bending process of bending the section (the section of the curving portion) of a fixation base portion, into which the core metal member is inserted, following a curved shape of a sensor bracket.

Abstract: A performance system can include a primary unit and a secondary unit. The secondary unit is provided for an electronic musical instrument that can be set to a first mode that enables performance by a single individual and a second mode that enables performance by a plurality of individuals, has connecting portions enabling connection of one or a plurality of receivers having at least a receiving function, and is able to communicate with the primary unit. The performance can also include an determining portion for determining whether or not a plurality of the receivers is connected to the connecting portion, and a transmitting portion for transmitting, to the primary unit, a notification that the second mode has been set, upon determining that a plurality of the receivers has been connected to the connecting portion.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a manufacturing method of a touch sensor unit that includes a tubular insulator housing a plurality of electrodes, and the plurality of electrodes housed in the tubular insulator are prevented from being fixed in a short-circuited state by the resin flowing into the tubular insulator. The manufacturing method of the touch sensor unit includes: a first process of disposing an end of a sensor holder, a resistor, connection wires, and a separator, which are included in a mold part provided at an end of the touch sensor unit, in a mold; and a second process of supplying molten resin into the mold in a state where the tubular insulator housing linear electrodes is pressed from an outer side of the sensor holder in the mold. In the second process, the tubular insulator is pressed within a range where the tubular insulator and an insertion protrusion overlap.

Abstract: The disclosure realizes a touch sensor unit including a mold part that can restrict the movement of a sensor body embedded in a sensor holder. A touch sensor unit includes a sensor body, a sensor holder in which the sensor body is embedded, and a resistor disposed outside the sensor holder and electrically connected to the sensor body. The sensor body includes a tubular insulator that is elastically deformed when an external force is applied, and a plurality of linear electrodes that are provided inside the tubular insulator and come into contact with each other as the tubular insulator is elastically deformed. At least an end of the sensor holder, an end of the tubular insulator protruding from an end surface of the sensor holder, and the resistor are molded together with a mold part which is a resin molded body.

Abstract: The disclosure improves the flexibility of arrangement of a separator provided at an end of a touch sensor unit to ensure electrical insulation. A sensor body included in a touch sensor unit includes a tubular insulator that is elastically deformed when an external force is applied; linear electrodes that are provided inside the tubular insulator and come into contact with each other as the tubular insulator is elastically deformed; a resistor disposed on an outer side of an end of the tubular insulator; connection wires connecting the linear electrodes and the resistor; a separator interposed between the connection wires and preventing contact between the connection wires; a mold part including at least the connection wires, the resistor, and the separator; and a cover member covering at least a part of the connection wires, the resistor, and the separator via the mold part.

Abstract: A vehicle door opening/closing actuator includes a tubular housing, a motor part accommodated in the housing, a feeding apparatus accommodated in the housing and that supplies power to the motor part, and a closed-bottom tubular seal section that has a circumferential wall arranged to be interposed between an inner circumferential surface of the housing and an outer circumferential surface of the feeding apparatus, and that is arranged to cover the feeding apparatus with an entire thereof, wherein a rib extending in a circumferential direction is formed at an inner circumferential surface of the circumferential wall of the seal section, and a concave section that receives the rib is formed at the outer circumferential surface of the feeding apparatus.

Abstract: A retractor of a seat belt apparatus includes a spool that is configured to wind the seat belt while allowing the seat belt to be pulled out, a motor that includes a shaft coupled to the spool and generates a rotational resistance force against the spool rotating in a direction to pull out the seat belt, the rotational resistance force corresponding to the rotation of the spool and the shaft caused by pulling out of the seat belt, a rotational resistance member that is coupled to the spool and generates a rotational resistance force against the spool rotating in the direction to pull out the seat belt when the seat belt is pulled out in the event of vehicle collision, and a reducing mechanism that reduces the rotation of the spool and transmits a reduced rotation to the shaft.

Abstract: Provided is a column tube for chromatography that can prevent a peak shape abnormality referred to as a foot in a resulting chromatogram. The object is accomplished by the column tube for chromatography, through which a fluid flows, this column tube including a plurality of polishing traces extending on an inner circumferential surface of the column tube in a flow direction of the fluid.

Abstract: A method for adjusting output light color from a vehicular headlamp unit to correct the difference or change of white light of a light source by a liquid crystal element. The vehicular headlamp unit includes a light source; an information acquisition unit that acquires information in front of a own vehicle; an irradiation pattern calculation unit that determines an irradiation pattern on the basis of the information; a voltage application unit that applies a voltage to a liquid crystal element on the basis of the irradiation pattern; the liquid crystal element that changes a transmittance of each of light control regions on the basis of the voltage; and a projection optical system that performs light distribution control of light controlled to be transmitted by the liquid crystal element. The method includes adjusting color of light emitted from the vehicular headlamp unit by the voltage applied to the liquid crystal element.