Abstract: An adapter is mountable to a liquid consumption apparatus to connect an external source of liquid to the liquid consumption apparatus. The liquid consumption apparatus includes a liquid intake portion for taking liquid into the liquid consumption apparatus and a liquid catcher for catching inadvertently spilled or sprayed liquid, the liquid catcher being provided below the liquid intake portion. The adapter includes a liquid supply portion and an accommodation portion. The liquid supply portion is configured to connect to the liquid intake portion to supply the liquid from the external source to the liquid intake portion. The accommodation portion is located below the liquid supply portion. In a state where the adapter is attached to the liquid consumption apparatus, the accommodation portion accommodates at least a part of the liquid catcher.

Abstract: A liquid housing container recycling method is provided for a liquid housing container with a liquid housing body that includes a liquid housing unit that is configured to house liquid, a supply member with a supply port that is configured to be connected to a liquid supply tube of a liquid consuming device, and a filter through which the liquid is configured to pass, with the liquid inside the liquid housing unit being supplied to the liquid consuming device by, after passing through the filter, flowing to the supply port along a supply flow path of the supply member. The liquid housing container recycling method includes forming a detour flow path in the liquid housing body such that the liquid inside the liquid housing unit flows to the supply port without passing through the filter in the detour flow path, and injecting the liquid inside the liquid housing unit.

Abstract: A liquid container can be smoothly mounted to a mounting portion, and the liquid container is reliably locked when mounting is complete. The liquid container includes: a first surface that is on a side in a direction of insertion (+Y direction); a second surface that opposes the first surface; a third surface that intersects the first surface and the second surface and has formed therein a groove portion that can engage with a lever member; a fourth surface that opposes the third surface; and lower protruding wall portions that are provided on at least one of the third surface and the fourth surface, and are positioned by guide surfaces of lower guide ribs of the mounting portion when the ink cartridge is locked by engagement of the groove portion with the lever member due to the ink cartridge moving in the direction of insertion into the mounting portion.

Abstract: A liquid containing body includes a liquid containing vessel, and a casing member. The liquid containing vessel contains a liquid, and includes a supply member with a liquid supply opening that supplies the liquid to a liquid consumption apparatus. The casing member supports at least the supply member. The supply member has a cylindrical flow path section that defines the liquid supply opening. The casing member has a through hole forming section with a through hole. The cylindrical flow path section is insertable in the through hole. The casing member further has an engaging section that engages with the supply member to regulate movement of the cylindrical flow path section in an opposite direction to an insertion direction while the cylindrical flow path section is rotated with the insertion direction as an axial line in a state where the cylindrical flow path section is inserted in the through hole.

Abstract: The liquid container includes a liquid containing body having a flexible bag-shaped liquid containing section configured to contain liquid and a supply member that is connected to the liquid containing section and has a supply port configured to supply the liquid from the liquid containing section to an outside, and a case member configured to contain the liquid containing body. The case member has a first surface in which an opening section is formed to expose the supply port, and a second surface opposed to the first surface. The case member further has opposing sections that are opposed through the liquid containing section and are configured to contact with the liquid containing section in a position of a +Y-direction, which is a direction from the first surface to the second surface, than a joint section between the liquid containing section and the supply member.

Abstract: A mounting member includes a position alignment member, an attachment member and a moving member. The position alignment member is positionally aligned with respect to a liquid consumption apparatus in three directions. The attachment member is attached to the position alignment member and includes an inner portion flow path and a liquid supply port. The moving member is attached to the attachment member, and configured and arranged to move according to pressure changes in the inner portion flow path. The moving member is disposed at a position that faces and contacts one end portion of a rod-shaped member provided in the liquid consumption apparatus when the mounting member is mounted in the liquid consumption apparatus so that displacement of the other end portion of the rod-shaped member is detected by a sensor that detects a liquid remaining amount state of the liquid supply source.

Abstract: There is provided a method for separating an arsenic mineral from a copper-bearing material containing arsenic, such as a copper ore or a copper concentrate, to obtain a copper concentrate with low arsenic grade. The method for separating an arsenic mineral from a copper-bearing material by flotation includes adding a flotation agent containing a depressant, a frother, and a collector to a slurry composed of a copper-bearing material containing arsenic, and blowing air into the slurry to float a copper concentrate, wherein the depressant is sodium thiosulfate. The sodium thiosulfate is preferably added in an amount of 10 kg or more and 200 kg or less in terms of sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate per ton of copper-bearing material to be subjected to flotation. Further, the oxidation-reduction potential of the slurry to be subjected to flotation, as measured against a silver/silver chloride reference electrode, is preferably ?10 mV or more and 50 mV or less.

Abstract: Disclosed are an oxide superconductor tape and a method of manufacturing the oxide superconductor tape capable of improving the length and characteristics of superconductor tape and obtaining stabilized characteristics across the entire length thereof. A Y-class superconductor tape (10), as an oxide superconductor tape, comprises a tape (13) further comprising a tape-shaped non-oriented metallic substrate (11), and a first buffer layer (sheet layer) (12) that is formed by IBAD upon the tape-shaped non-oriented metallic substrate (11); and a second buffer layer (gap layer) (14), further comprising a lateral face portion (14a) that is extended to the lateral faces of the first buffer layer (sheet layer) (12) upon the tape (13) by RTR RF-magnetron sputtering.

Abstract: An attachment member is adapted to be mounted to a mounting section of a printing apparatus from an outside toward an inward direction of the printing apparatus. The mounting section extends from a connecting position of a printing material supply pipe arranged inside of the printing apparatus to the outside of the printing apparatus with a lever being disposed at a position closer to the outside. The attachment member includes a front surface and an upper surface. The front surface has a supply pipe insertion hole to which the printing material supply pipe is inserted. The upper surface intersects with the front surface. The upper surface includes a concave section formed thereon so that a regulating section of the lever is inserted into the concave section when the attachment member is mounted to the mounting section.

Abstract: A cartridge is adapted to be used in a printing apparatus having a mounting section provided with a lever and a terminal group. The cartridge includes a front surface, a rear surface, an upper surface, a lower surface, a circuit board, and a first convex section. The upper surface includes a concave section configured and arranged to allow a regulating section of the lever to be inserted in the concave section. The circuit board is electrically connected with the terminal group. The first convex section is configured and arranged to be guided in a groove provided in the mounting section. The circuit board, the first convex section, and the concave section are disposed in the upper surface in a plan view of the upper surface.

Abstract: A liquid consumption apparatus, onto which a liquid supply member is mounted, includes a liquid delivery unit, a liquid accepting unit and an abutting section. The liquid delivery unit is configured to deliver a liquid from the liquid supply member. The liquid accepting unit is provided below the liquid delivery unit. The abutting section abuts against the liquid supply member. The liquid accepting unit is provided to the abutting section. In a state where the abutting section and the liquid supply member abut against each other, the liquid accepting unit protrudes out closer toward the liquid supply member than a surface where the liquid supply member and the abutting section abut against each other.

Abstract: A liquid holding container having an ink pack constituted by a sheet member, capable of housing ink inside, a flow path member extending through the sheet member, between the outside and inside of the ink pack, and having a flow path capable of delivering ink from the inside to the outside of the ink pack, and a filter provided in the flow path member inside the ink pack. The flow path member and the sheet member are joined, and the flow path extends further to the inside of the ink pack than the end part which is the junction part at the position of the sheet member joined with the flow path member. At the flow path member, the filter is provided at a site further to the inside of the ink pack than the junction part.

Abstract: An adapter is mountable to a liquid consumption apparatus to connect an external source of liquid to the liquid consumption apparatus. The liquid consumption apparatus includes a liquid intake portion for taking liquid into the liquid consumption apparatus and a liquid catcher for catching inadvertently spilled or sprayed liquid, the liquid catcher being provided below the liquid intake portion. The adapter includes a liquid supply portion and an accommodation portion. The liquid supply portion is configured to connect to the liquid intake portion to supply the liquid from the external source to the liquid intake portion. The accommodation portion is located below the liquid supply portion. In a state where the adapter is attached to the liquid consumption apparatus, the accommodation portion accommodates at least a part of the liquid catcher.

Abstract: A cartridge comprises: a printing material container; a printing material supplier that supplies a printing material contained in the printing material container to a printing device; a first surface and a second surface that are opposed to each other; a third surface that intersects with the first surface and the second surface; a fourth surface that is opposed to the third surface; a cartridge-side engagement structure that is provided on the third surface at a position closer to the first surface than the second surface and is configured to be engaged with a device-side engagement structure of the printing device; and contact portions that are provided in an area where both an end of the first surface proximate to the fourth surface and an end of the fourth surface proximate to the first surface are located and are configured to be in contact with the printing device. A contact surface defined by the contact portions is inclined to the fourth surface.

Abstract: An inter-terminal connection structure includes: a first terminal; a second terminal which is separated from the first terminal and is mounted on a container main body for storing a liquid storage body; a first connection member which is in contact with the first terminal, is mounted on the liquid storage body, and has conductivity; and a second connection member which is for connection to the second terminal, is mounted on the container main body, and has conductivity, wherein, when the liquid storage body is accommodated in the container main body, in order to cause the first connection member to come in contact with a first contact portion of the second connection member, the container main body has a positioning member for determining a position of a first site of the first contact portion which is to come in contact with the first connection member inside the container main body.

Abstract: A printing material holding container is equipped with a case which is equipped with a front surface, a first side surface, a second side surface, a third side surface, a fourth side surface, and a back surface, with a printing material holding unit being provided on the inside of the case. A first insertion hole is provided on the front surface. A printing material injection port is provided on the case, communicating with the printing material holding portion. A recess is provided in a corner portion at which the front surface and the first side surface intersect each other. The device side terminal unit is inserted into the recess in the mounted state. The recess includes an opening which is an entrance when the device side terminal unit is inserted into the recess.

Abstract: A first information processing apparatus executes an operation corresponding to a message entered thereto. Upon completion of the operation, the first information processing apparatus sends a notification to a second information processing apparatus. The second information processing apparatus stores such notifications in a memory. The second information processing apparatus also receives a message, and upon expiration of a predetermined time after receipt of the message, the second information processing apparatus determines whether the memory contains a notification relevant to the received message. When the memory contains such a notification, the second information processing apparatus avoids execution of an operation corresponding to the received message.

Abstract: Apparatus for supporting a substrate are provided herein. In some embodiments, a substrate support includes a susceptor plate having a top surface; a recess formed within the top surface, wherein the recess is defined by an edge; and a plurality of angled support elements disposed within the recess and along the edge of the recess, wherein each angled support element comprises a first surface downwardly sloped toward a center of the recess.

Abstract: In a monitoring system, a first device among devices includes a generating unit that generates third data indicating a string of an identical section when strings each indicated in first data and second data acquired through communications with the devices are identical to each other by a predetermined proportion or more, and a first transmitting unit that transmits the third data generated by the generating unit and information for identifying the third data to a second device included in the devices. The second device includes a second transmitting unit that transmits, when a string indicated in fourth data to be transmitted to the first device includes the string indicated in the third data, fifth data indicating a string obtained by excluding the string indicated in the third data from the string indicated in the fourth data, and the information for identifying the third data to the first device.

Abstract: A liquid container that allows liquid remaining in a liquid containing portion to be reduced is provided. An ink container includes an ink bag, and an ink outlet portion in communication with an internal portion of the ink bag. The internal portion of the ink bag is provided with an ink outlet tube, one of the ends of which is connected to the ink outlet portion, and the other end of which extends in the ink bag to the side opposite from the side where the ink outlet portion is formed. The ink outlet tube is made of a material having a specific gravity larger than that of the ink contained in the ink bag.