Abstract: A liquid coating apparatus includes a liquid chamber, a diaphragm deformable to change a volume of the liquid chamber, a piezoelectric element that deforms the diaphragm in a thickness direction, a pressurized casing bottom-wall portion between the piezoelectric element and the diaphragm to support the piezoelectric element from a diaphragm side, a fixed casing bottom wall portion that supports an end of the piezoelectric element on a side opposite to the diaphragm, a plunger that extends through the pressurized casing bottom-wall portion and transmits expansion and contraction of the piezoelectric element to the diaphragm, and a coil spring that is between the piezoelectric element and the pressurized casing bottom-wall portion and is supported by the first support portion to apply a compressive force to the piezoelectric element.

Abstract: An input device including an operation key arranged in an opening of a panel is provided. The input device also includes a light source and a push button switch each being arranged in a position opposite an opening on a board. The operation key includes: a key top having a pressing part extending toward the push button switch. The pressing part is arranged in a position separated from a center position in planar view of the key top on a line that is parallel to a line connecting connection parts of the key top, which are connected with one pair out of one or more pairs of arms, and passes through the center position. The push button switch is arranged in a position on the board opposite an arrangement position of the pressing part.

Abstract: An input device comprises an operation key arranged in an opening of a panel; and a light source and a push button switch each arranged in a position opposite to the opening on a board, wherein the operation key includes: a key top having a pressing part extending toward the push button switch, wherein the pressing part is arranged in a position separated from a center position in planar view of the key top on a line that is parallel to a line connecting connection parts of the key top, which are connected with one pair out of one or more pairs of arms, and passes through the center position, and wherein the push button switch is arranged in a position on the board opposite to an arrangement position of the pressing part,

Abstract: A liquid coating apparatus includes a liquid chamber, a diaphragm deformable to change a volume of the liquid chamber, a piezoelectric element that deforms the diaphragm in a thickness direction, a pressurized casing bottom-wall portion between the piezoelectric element and the diaphragm to support the piezoelectric element from a diaphragm side, a fixed casing bottom wall portion that supports an end of the piezoelectric element on a side opposite to the diaphragm, a plunger that extends through the pressurized casing bottom-wall portion and transmits expansion and contraction of the piezoelectric element to the diaphragm, and a coil spring that is between the piezoelectric element and the pressurized casing bottom-wall portion and is supported by the first support portion to apply a compressive force to the piezoelectric element.

Abstract: A liquid coating apparatus includes a liquid storage assembly to store a liquid, a pressure sensor to detect a remaining amount of liquid in the liquid storage assembly, a discharge assembly to discharge the liquid in the liquid storage assembly to an outside, a negative pressure pump to generate a negative pressure lower than an atmospheric pressure, a negative pressure adjusting container with an internal pressure adjusted to a predetermined negative pressure by the negative pressure pump, a pressure adjustment controller to control drive of the negative pressure pump based on a detection result of the pressure sensor, and a pressure switch to adjust pressure in the liquid storage assembly to the predetermined negative pressure in the negative pressure adjusting container.

Abstract: An amplitude of current ripples on a primary side of a power supply device that uses a plurality of transformers is reduced. A driving power supply device (7) that supplies electric power to a plurality of drive circuits (2) that individually drive switching elements (3) of an inverter (10) includes a plurality of transformers (L) having secondary-side coils (Ls) which are individually connected to the respective corresponding drive circuits (2); a plurality of transformer driving units (5) each including a driving switching element (M) that controls supply of electric power to a primary-side coil (Lp); and a power supply control device (6) that provides transformer drive signals (MG) for driving the transformer driving units (5). The power supply control device (6) drives the transformer driving units (5) by transformer drive signals (MG) having different phases.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a speaker that is stored inside a housing and includes an attachment guide to which the speaker is attached on a housing front surface. The attachment guide has at least one angle deciding portion which inclines a front surface of the speaker relative to the housing front surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a status display part. The status display part is provided on a rear side of a touch panel display within the range including the lateral width of an operation unit. The status display part includes LEDs as a light source and a light emitter that transmits light from the LEDs to emit the light to the outside. A filter includes a first surface and a second surface that have different angles in an up-down direction.

Abstract: An amplitude of current ripples on a primary side of a power supply device that uses a plurality of transformers is reduced. A driving power supply device (7) that supplies electric power to a plurality of drive circuits (2) that individually drive switching elements (3) of an inverter (10) includes a plurality of transformers (L) having secondary-side coils (Ls) which are individually connected to the respective corresponding drive circuits (2); a plurality of transformer driving units (5) each including a driving switching element (M) that controls supply of electric power to a primary-side coil (Lp); and a power supply control device (6) that provides transformer drive signals (MG) for driving the transformer driving units (5). The power supply control device (6) drives the transformer driving units (5) by transformer drive signals (MG) having different phases.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a status display part. The status display part is provided on a rear side of a touch panel display within the range including the lateral width of an operation unit. The status display part includes LEDs as a light source and a light emitter that transmits light from the LEDs to emit the light to the outside. A filter includes a first surface and a second surface that have different angles in an up-down direction.

Abstract: There is provided an intake manifold of a multicylinder engine capable of facilitating homogenization of concentration distribution of EGR gas in intake air and distribution of EGR gas into respective cylinders.

Abstract: An electrically driven vehicle inverter device includes a smoothing capacitor, a discharge resistor, a discharge resistor and first and second discharge switching elements connected in series between both ends of the smoothing capacitor, and a clamp circuit provided for at least one of the first and second discharge switching elements. The clamp circuit includes a reverse flow prevention element and a constant voltage generation element that causes a constant voltage drop when a voltage across the constant voltage generation element exceeds a value determined in advance, for example.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image reading portion, and an operation unit having at least a touch panel display is provided in a front side of the image reading portion. A housing of the image reading portion has a housing projection portion that is projected frontward as compared with a front surface of a document pressing cover, and a power key that is a hardware key is provided on an upper surface of the housing projection portion in a back side as compared with the touch panel display and within a range of a breadth of the operation unit. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent the power key from being operated carelessly, and it becomes easy to recognize a position of the power key.

Abstract: A switching element driving circuit that includes a push-pull buffer circuit driving a switching element to be driven, the push-pull buffer circuit amplifying electrical power of a switching control signal and transmitting the amplified switching control signal to a control terminal of the switching element to be driven; a compensation resistor that connects the input to the output; and an input-side pull-down resistor that connects the input to a negative polarity side of the switching element to be driven.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises an image reading portion, and an operation unit having at least a touch panel display is provided in a front side of the image reading portion. A housing of the image reading portion has a housing projection portion that is projected frontward as compared with a front surface of a document pressing cover, and a power key that is a hardware key is provided on an upper surface of the housing projection portion in a back side as compared with the touch panel display and within a range of a breadth of the operation unit. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent the power key from being operated carelessly, and it becomes easy to recognize a position of the power key.

Abstract: An operation unit comprises a touch panel display, a home key and a power saving key. The power saving key includes an indication portion, and a first indication portion out of the indication portion has light permeability, and a color of its surface is a dark color, and a second indication portion has no light permeability or has it hardly, which is constituted by a double-layered print. In a surface side of this second indication portion, a figure indicative of a power saving key is printed in silver ink, and in a rear side thereof, a figure indicative of the power saving key is printed in black ink. In a normal state, when a backlight is lit, a surface of the first indication portion is bright, and a surface of the second indication portion is darker than the surface of the first indication portion.

Abstract: A switching element driving circuit that includes a push-pull buffer circuit driving a switching element to be driven, the push-pull buffer circuit amplifying electrical power of a switching control signal and transmitting the amplified switching control signal to a control terminal of the switching element to be driven; a compensation resistor that connects the input to the output; and an input-side pull-down resistor that connects the input to a negative polarity side of the switching element to be driven.

Abstract: A touch key of an operation console includes a circuit board (310) having a light source (312, 314), a light transmitting portion (322) transmitting light, a non-transparent light shielding portion (324) and a semi-transparent operation panel (300) covering upper surfaces of the light transmitting portion and the light shielding portion. The light transmitting portion accommodates the light source. The surfaces of light transmitting portion and light shielding portion in contact with each other are tightly sealed, and the circuit board (310) and the light shielding portion (324) cover the light transmitting portion (323) such that the light is emitted only from the surface in contact with the operation panel (300). Thus, leakage of light from around a figure indicating a touch key can be prevented, and the operation console comes to have a high-class look.

Abstract: An operation unit comprises a touch panel display, a home key and a power saving key. The power saving key includes an indication portion, and a first indication portion out of the indication portion has light permeability, and a color of its surface is a dark color, and a second indication portion has no light permeability or has it hardly, which is constituted by a double-layered print. In a surface side of this second indication portion, a figure indicative of a power saving key is printed in silver ink, and in a rear side thereof, a figure indicative of the power saving key is printed in black ink. In a normal state, when a backlight is lit, a surface of the first indication portion is bright, and a surface of the second indication portion is darker than the surface of the first indication portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a speaker that is stored inside a housing and includes an attachment guide to which the speaker is attached on a housing front surface. The attachment guide has at least one angle deciding portion which inclines a front surface of the speaker relative to the housing front surface.