Abstract: To provide a toothbrush that can easily and surely brush, particularly, lateral sides of molars and premolars and rear surfaces of incisors. A toothbrush comprising a rod-like block handle and a bristle section having a bristle tuft unit composed with a plurality of bristle tufts and extended to the end part of the block handle, wherein the bristle tuft unit is equipped with a head-end bristle tuft unit disposed in the head end section and a level difference unit provided on the block handle side rather than on the head-end bristle tuft unit, having still shorter bristle tufts and at the same time, formed throughout a plane range larger than the head-end bristle tuft unit.

Abstract: An ink jet printer including a carriage which is movable relative to a sheet of paper, a recording head which is mounted on the carriage and records an image on the sheet by ejecting a droplet of ink toward the sheet, one or more ink tanks which store the ink or inks to be supplied to the recording head, a buffer tank which is mounted on the carriage, and one or more ink flow passages in which the inks are supplied from the ink tanks to the recording head via the buffer tank. The buffer tank has, at a height position higher than a height position where the recording head is provided, one or more air buffer chambers which accommodate respective amounts of the inks, and collect air bubbles produced in the ink flow passages.

Abstract: The present invention prevents the corrosion of a printed circuit board which is connected to a lower side of a display panel in a liquid crystal display panel. In a display device which includes a display panel and a frame member which supports an outer peripheral portion of a display screen of a display panel, a water absorbing member is adhered to a surface of the frame member which faces the display panel in an opposed manner.

Abstract: The present invention prevents the corrosion of a printed circuit board which is connected to a lower side of a display panel in a liquid crystal display panel. In a display device which includes a display panel and a frame member which supports an outer peripheral portion of a display screen of a display panel, a water absorbing member is adhered to a surface of the frame member which faces the display panel in an opposed manner.

Abstract: The present invention prevents the corrosion of a printed circuit board which is connected to a lower side of a display panel in a liquid crystal display panel. In a display device which includes a display panel and a frame member which supports an outer peripheral portion of a display screen of a display panel, a water absorbing member is adhered to a surface of the frame member which faces the display panel in an opposed manner.

Abstract: An ink cartridge includes a container; an ink reservoir provided in the container; an opening provided in the container, the opening being situated in the container so that the opening can communicate with the ink reservoir through a fluid path; and a stop fitted in the opening, the stop having elasticity and being formed of a material such that a hollow needle can be penetrated through the stop. The stop is moveable between a first position permitting communication between the opening and the fluid path, and a second position in which the stop substantially obstructs communication between the opening and the fluid path.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a molecular chaperone function regulator containing a quinazoline derivative represented by the following formula (I) wherein each symbol is as defined in Claims, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a hydrate or solvate thereof, an optically active form or racemate thereof or a diastereomer mixture thereof as an active ingredient can be provided.

Abstract: An ink jet printer including a carriage which is movable relative to a sheet of paper, a recording head which is mounted on the carriage and records an image on the sheet by ejecting a droplet of ink toward the sheet, one or more ink tanks which store the ink or inks to be supplied to the recording head, a buffer tank which is mounted on the carriage, and one or more ink flow passages in which the inks are supplied from the ink tanks to the recording head via the buffer tank. The buffer tank has, at a height position higher than a height position where the recording head is provided, one or more air buffer chambers which accommodate respective amounts of the inks, and collect air bubbles produced in the ink flow passages. The printer further includes one or more air bubble discharging passages which communicate, at one ends thereof, with upper portions of the air buffer chambers, and discharge, via the other ends thereof, the air bubbles collected by the air buffer chambers.

Abstract: An ink jet printer including a carriage which is movable relative to a sheet of paper, a recording head which is mounted on the carriage and records an image on the sheet by ejecting a droplet of ink toward the sheet, one or more ink tanks which store the ink or inks to be supplied to the recording head, a buffer tank which is mounted on the carriage, and one or more ink flow passages in which the inks are supplied from the ink tanks to the recording head via the buffer tank. The buffer tank has, at a height position higher than a height position where the recording head is provided, one or more air buffer chambers which accommodate respective amounts of the inks, and collect air bubbles produced in the ink flow passages. The printer further includes one or more air-discharge passages which communicate, at one ends thereof, with upper portions of the air buffer chambers, and discharge, via the other ends thereof, the air bubbles collected by the air buffer chambers.

Abstract: A shift control apparatus of a belt type continuously variable transmission is comprised of a controller which is arranged to set a first hydraulic pressure controlled variable based on a first target transmission ratio determined based on a vehicle traveling condition, to set a second hydraulic controlled variable based on a second target transmission ratio determined based on a predetermined transfer characteristic, to steplessly control the transmission ratio by controlling hydraulic pressures of primary and secondary pulleys hydraulic based on the first and second hydraulic pressure controlled variables, to detect at least one of the hydraulic pressures of the primary and secondary pulleys, and to correct the second target transmission ratio based on the detected hydraulic pressure.

Abstract: A compound of the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a hydrate thereof, a solvate thereof, an optically active compound thereof, a racemate thereof or a diastereomer mixture thereof has a superior tyrosine-specific protein kinase inhibitory activity and is useful as a pharmaceutical agent, particularly as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of various cancers, psoriasis or diseases caused by arteriosclerosis, and the like.

Abstract: A compound of the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a hydrate thereof, a solvate thereof, an optically active compound thereof, a racemate thereof or a diastereomer mixture thereof has a superior tyrosine-specific protein kinase inhibitory activity and is useful as a pharmaceutical agent, particularly as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of various cancers, psoriasis or diseases caused by arteriosclerosis, and the like.

Abstract: A polarization stabilizing device and method based on controlling the phase retardations of a pair of variable rotators with an optically interposed quarter-wave plate, with a controller such that the first of the variable rotators has its phase retardation switched between first and second values whenever the phase retardation of the second of the variable rotators reaches an upper or a lower limit. The upper and lower limits of the second rotator and the first and second values of the first rotator are chosen so that discontinuities in the power of the output optical radiation are avoided when the first variable rotator is switched, thereby providing endless polarization stabilization using rotators that themselves may have limited retardation ranges.

Abstract: The present invention prevents the corrosion of a printed circuit board which is connected to a lower side of a display panel in a liquid crystal display panel. In a display device which includes a display panel and a frame member which supports an outer peripheral portion of a display screen of a display panel, a water absorbing member is adhered to a surface of the frame member which faces the display panel in an opposed manner.

Abstract: A plurality of reflection films are provided behind a liquid crystal layer of a liquid crystal element, corresponding to predetermined regions in the plural pixels Pix. By the regions of the plural pixels wherein the reflection films are provided, reflection parts Pr are formed that reflects the light that enters from the front side and goes out to the front side by the region where the reflection film is provided, and transmission parts are formed that transmits the light that enters from the back side and goes out to the front side by the other regions of the plural pixels. At the same time, color filters, wherein a plurality of apertures are formed to the parts corresponding to the reflection pars Pr of the pixels Pix, are provided respectively corresponding to the plural pixels Pix, and a planarization transparent film covering the aperture is formed on these color filters.

Abstract: An apparatus for driving an ink jet printer including actuators for first and second pressure chambers communicating with first and second nozzles, the printer operating in a first mode in which the first and second nozzles are permitted to eject a first and a second ink and in a second mode in which only the first nozzles are permitted to eject the first ink, the apparatus including an obtainer which obtains a mode signal indicating in which one of the first and second modes the printer is to operate, and image data indicating whether each of the first and second nozzles is to eject a corresponding one of the first and second inks; and an applier which applies, based on the signal and the data, a voltage to each actuator such that when the printer is to operate in the first mode, a first voltage not equal to zero V is applied to an actuator corresponding to an operative nozzle of the first and second nozzles that is to eject a corresponding one of the first and second inks and subsequently a first subsequent

Abstract: An ink cartridge includes a container; an ink reservoir provided in the container; an opening provided in the container, the opening being situated in the container so that the opening can communicate with the ink reservoir through a fluid path; and a stop fitted in the opening, the stop having elasticity and being formed of a material such that a hollow needle can be penetrated through the stop. The stop is moveable between a first position permitting communication between the opening and the fluid path, and a second position in which the stop substantially obstructs communication between the opening and the fluid path.

Abstract: A shift control apparatus of a belt type continuously variable transmission is comprised of a controller which is arranged to set a first hydraulic pressure controlled variable based on a first target transmission ratio determined based on a vehicle traveling condition, to set a second hydraulic controlled variable based on a second target transmission ratio determined based on a predetermined transfer characteristic, to steplessly control the transmission ratio by controlling hydraulic pressures of primary and secondary pulleys hydraulic based on the first and second hydraulic pressure controlled variables, to detect at least one of the hydraulic pressures of the primary and secondary pulleys, and to correct the second target transmission ratio based on the detected hydraulic pressure.

Abstract: A dial switch disposed on a front surface of a control panel is surrounded by a colored ring which is visible from a front side of the control panel. Behind the front surface of the control panel, an ornamental prism made of a transparent material and a light source are disposed. A colored layer is formed on the rear surface of the ornamental prism so that a ring surrounding the dial switch is visible as a colored ring. The colored ring is visible through the transparent ornamental prism at the daytime and is visible by illumination of the light source in the nighttime. Since no light leaks bypassing the colored layer, the ring is perfectly colored. Since only the flat rear surface of the ornamental prism is covered with the colored layer, the ornamental prism can be manufactured in a simple process.