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An optical scanner apparatus includes first and second torsion beams which support a mirror support portion supporting a mirror from both sides in an axial direction; first and second horizontal driving beams configured to include first and second horizontal driving sources, respectively, a connecting beam; a first piezo-electric sensor; first and second sensor interconnects connected to one of and the other of an upper electrode and a lower electrode of the first piezo-electric sensor, respectively, the first sensor interconnect and the second sensor interconnect being formed to extend toward the first horizontal driving beam and the second horizontal driving beam, respectively.

In an optical information recording / reproducing apparatus using holography in which a relative inclination between a recording light or a reproducing light and a recording medium is corrected by using a device which is suitable for size-reduction. Provided is an optical information recording / reproducing apparatus for recording / reproducing information to / from a recording medium through irradiating recording light or reproducing light by an objective lens onto a recording medium to / from which information is recorded / reproduced using holography, wherein light ray flux of the recording light or the reproducing light entering an objective lens is parallel-translated according to a relative inclination between the recording light or the reproducing light and the recording medium.

An image correction apparatus, an image correction method and a transformation map making method are disclosed. The apparatus includes an imaging device, a memory section, a corrected image creation section and a display device. The imaging device has an optical axis inclined upward or downward with respect to a ground surface, and captures an image. The corrected image creation section transforms the captured image into a corrected image in accordance with a transformation map stored in the memory section, thereby making a correction on inclination of a display object with respect to a vertical direction. The display device displays the corrected image.

A micro-hardness measurement method for calculating the hardness of a test sample by pushing an indenter in the test sample and forming an indentation thereon, including: a loading step for extracting load data showing the relationship between load L applied to the indenter and a depth δ to which the indenter is pushed in from the surface of the test sample; an unloading step of extracting unloading data showing the relationship between the load L applied to the indenter after the load is unloaded and the depth δ; a first step of judging, by comparing the unloading data with the load data, the load fluctuation amount from the maximum depth δ0 when unloading the load; and a second step of judging the load at the depth δ1 (δ1<δ0) when unloading the load or the load fluctuation amount in the vicinity of the depth δ1.

An objective of the present invention is to provide a technique for reducing measurement errors when measuring specimen using light. An aspect of an optical measurement method according to the present invention: acquires relationship data that describes a relationship between an intensity of reflection light when irradiating light onto a specimen and a size of the specimen; and acquires the size of the specimen using the relationship data and the intensity of the reflection light. Another aspect of an optical measurement method according to the present invention subtracts a component due to an inclination of a vessel of a specimen from a detection signal representing an intensity of reflection light when irradiating light onto the specimen, thereby correcting the inclination of the vessel.

An inclination calculation apparatus within a game machine computes an inclination of an input device having an acceleration sensor / detector capable of simultaneously detecting an acceleration in at least two axial directions. Programmed logic circuitry within the apparatus consecutively generates preliminary data which represents an inclination and which is uniquely determined from acceleration data consecutively output from the acceleration sensor / detector. Programmed logic circuitry within the apparatus also consecutively computes a new / updated inclination based on a previously computed inclination, an acceleration due to gravity and a current inclination represented by the preliminary data, wherein the new / updated inclination is computed to have a direction oriented between the previously computed inclination and a current inclination represented by the preliminary data by a degree to which the acceleration due to gravity contributes to the acceleration data.

An object of the present invention is to provide: a spindle inclination detector capable of surely detecting spindle inclination with a simple configuration; and a machine tool including the spindle inclination detector. Spindle inclination detectors (41A, 41B) are equipped in columns (32A, 32B) of a portal bridge (24) of a machine tool (21). Each spindle inclination detector includes: a string (43) which hangs vertically with an upper end fixed to the column (reinforcement (32b)) and a lower end attached to a weight (45); a gap sensor (44) which is attached to the string to measure a distance to a front face plate (32a) of the column; and an oil damper (46). Moreover, a spindle inclination correction controller provided to the machine tool controls a Peltier device (42A,42B) attached to a rear face plate (32d) of the column, on a basis of an average distance measured by the gap sensor, and thus corrects an inclination of a spindle (28) due to the thermal deformation of the column by correcting thermal deformation of the column.

A calculator apparatus for calculating an angle of inclination includes a sensor apparatus and a calculator. The sensor apparatus has a three-axis acceleration sensor, which is used for resolving and sensing acceleration into a first acceleration component in a first axis direction, a second acceleration component in a second axis direction perpendicular to the first axis direction, and a third acceleration component in a third axis direction perpendicular to a plane formed by the first and second axes. The calculator compares absolute values of the first, second, and third acceleration components to calculate a first angle of inclination from one of the three acceleration components that is largest in absolute value and one of the remaining two acceleration components, and calculate a second angle of inclination from the one acceleration component that is largest in absolute value and the other of the two acceleration components.

An optical scanning lens which is used in a scanning and age forming optical system which gathers a light flux deflected by a light deflector in the vicinity of a surface to be scanned. The lens is formed by plastic molding of polyolefin resin, and the following condition is satisfied: 0<|Deltan(x)-min[Deltan(x)]|<34X10<-5>, where Deltan(x) denotes a refractive-index distribution existing inside the lens, in a range which the light flux passes through, in the lens, and min[Deltan(x)] denotes the minimum value of the Deltan(x).

An image sensor is provided with a light source for illuminating an original document with light, a plurality of rod lens arrays arranged continuously and connected to each other in such a manner that end rod lenses located at the ends of the rod lens arrays are in contact with each other among rod lenses for forming images of light reflected from the original document, a sealing agent that fills in each of gaps between the end rod lenses, light-receiving elements for receiving image-forming light produced by the rod lenses over a prescribed reading width, and a frame to which the rod lens arrays are fixed via buffers over the prescribed reading width. A long image sensor can be realized at a low cost by using short, general-purpose rod lens arrays.

A microscope apparatus has a sample table for supporting a sample and being mounted to undergo movement in a horizontal direction. A line sensor acquires a line image for each of a series of measuring positions of the sample in accordance with movement of the sample at a constant speed by one measuring width of the line sensor in the horizontal direction. An image processing device produces an image of the sample based on the line images acquired by the line sensor. A focusing device has a light-projecting member for projecting light onto the sample at a position forward of a leading side of an imaging range of the line sensor in the horizontal direction to prevent light reflected by the sample as a result of the projected light from being incident on and interfering with the line images acquired by the line sensor.

In an image processing apparatus, an inclination detecting unit acquires, with respect to each line of image data, positions of a left edge pixel and a right edge pixel that are positioned at a boundary between an original document and a background. A feature point position is acquired based on features of the positions of the edge pixels of a plurality of lines. Based on a feature of the position of at least one of the left edge pixel and the right edge pixel of the line that includes the feature point position or of the line that is near the former line, a status regarding a direction of the document is acquired. Furthermore, the acquired statuses are counted, the most counted status is determined, two feature points are selected from the feature points having a status that matches the most counted status, and the document inclination is calculated from the two feature point positions. Thereafter, the inclination of the document can be compensated for.

A secondary cleaning device has a cleaning brush, collection roller, and controller. The cleaning brush is driven by a drive mechanism and thereby rotates in a state that brush fibers thereof are contacting with a secondary transfer belt to collect toner on the secondary transfer belt. The collection roller is driven by another drive mechanism and thereby rotates in a state contacting with the cleaning brush to collect toner from the cleaning brush. The collection roller rotates in such a manner that the collection roller and the cleaning brush move in the same direction with each other at a contact area between the collection roller and the cleaning brush. The controller controls the drive mechanism such that the circumferential speed ratio of the collection roller with respect to the cleaning brush is greater than one and smaller than two.

A fluoroscopy-based system / method for correcting at least an inclination angle of an acetabular cup during total hip arthroplasty. A computing device processes an image of the surgical area to determine distortion, at least as a function of the reference object in the image. Thereafter, the computing device generates a correction factor and measures an inclination angle of an initially positioned acetabular cub in an anterior posterior image of a patient's pelvis, and corrects, as a function of the correction factor, the measured inclination angle to provide an accurate inclination angle of the acetabular cup.

The present invention provides an optical pick-up device capable of suppressing the inclination of a lens actuator in the jitter direction caused by the variation of the ambient temperature thereof to stably record or reproduce information to or from an optical disk. In the optical pick-up device, a supporting member 106 for fixing one end of each of suspension members 105 is arranged on a rear side of a suspension holder 2 fixed to a yoke base 103, and an object lens 102 is displaced by servo-controlling a lens holder 101 for holding the other ends of the suspension members in an electromagnetic driving manner to adjust the irradiation position of a beam spot on an optical disk. The suspension holder 2 is formed of a plurality of members having different coefficients of linear expansion, and the members having a higher coefficient of linear expansion are arranged on the rear side of the suspension holder 2. Therefore, the supporting member 106 is displaced by the linear expansion of the members having a higher coefficient of linear expansion according to the variation of temperature, thereby suppressing inclination of a lens actuator L.

To provide an amorphous Si photosensitive member and an image forming apparatus which form favorable images by preventing toner adhesion at a cleaning time. A photoconductive layer 102 containing amorphous Si is formed on an electrically conductive substrate 101 so that a surface of a photosensitive member has an average inclination Deltaa within a range of 0.12 to 1.0, more preferably 0.15 to 0.8 within a range of 10 mumx10 mum, and an electrically conductive substrate has surface roughness Ra within the range of 10 mumx10 mum is lower than 9 nm, preferably lower than 6 nm.

In a radiographic image detection apparatus that can perform long-size radiography on a region of a patient that is larger than the detection range of a radiographic image detector, radiography is performed so that a collimator image is included in a radiographic image in such a manner that the collimator image is present in the vicinity of a side edge of the radiographic image. Further, the inclination of each radiographic image caused by inclination of the radiographic image detector at the time of radiography is corrected based on the collimator image. Further, a synthesis image is produced by combining the plurality of radiographic images the inclination of which has been corrected.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a structure of a pivot receiving surface which may excellently adjust the attitude of a head supporting mechanism in a magnetic disk drive. In one embodiment, three projections are formed at a base for supporting a pivot assembly. The first projection is formed on a first line which bisects an angle defined between a second line and a third line determining a range, in which a head / slider flies above a magnetic disk. In contrast, the other two projections are formed at positions apart from the first projection at an angle of 120°, respectively. The attitude of the pivot assembly is adjusted by adjusting the heights of the projections, and thus, a head supporting mechanism is corrected in a predetermined attitude within the range in which the head / slider flies above the magnetic disk.

A laser alignment device for a drill rig having an elongate drill rod, the laser alignment device including a head unit having at least a pair of laser emitting devices mounted independently to one another thereon, each of the laser devices movable in one plane only and oriented in substantially opposite directions to one another, an attachment means to attach the head unit to a drill rig and a length adjustable assembly to adjust the separation distance between the head unit and the drill rod, wherein the alignment device is used to align at least the azimuth of the drill rod relative to survey marks.

A disclosed image forming apparatus includes a carriage on which a recording head is mounted that has a nozzle array where plural nozzles for ejecting droplets are arranged, the carriage being configured to be moved in a direction orthogonal to a nozzle arrangement direction; a transport belt facing the recording head and configured to transport a sheet; a print pattern forming unit configured to form a print pattern on the transport belt by causing at least the nozzles at opposing ends of the nozzle array to eject the droplets onto the transport belt while stopping the carriage; a reading unit configured to read the print pattern; a measuring unit configured to measure print positions of plural points of the print pattern in a direction orthogonal to the nozzle arrangement direction; and a detecting unit configured to detect an inclination of the recording head.

A multi-beam scanning device includes a light source for emitting a plurality of laser beams, a polygon mirror for deflecting the laser beams so that the laser beams scan across an object surface in a main scanning direction, an fθ lens disposed between the polygon mirror and the object surface, and a cylindrical lens that converges each laser beam in a vicinity of the polygon mirror in the auxiliary direction. A mirror is disposed between the light source and the cylindrical lens which deflects the laser beams in the auxiliary scanning direction. The mirror is rotatably supported by a mirror holder such that the traveling direction of the laser beams deflected by the mirror can be adjusted.

The object of the present invention is to provide a method whereby it is possible to cut a single crystal ingot comparatively accurately while allowing resulting slices to have a flat surface, and to lengthen the life of the blade more than would be possible with conventional methods. A single crystal ingot 10a is arranged below a straightly running portion 18a of the blade which is made to run endlessly along a circuit such that the longitudinal axis of ingot 10a crosses at right angles with the straightly running portion 18a of the blade, thereby enabling the straightly running portion 18a of the blade to cut the ingot 10a perpendicularly. If the blade is inclined to one side, the cutting machine detects a shift A between the uppermost end of cut surface 10b and its lowermost end projected to the longitudinal axis of ingot, and corrects the inclination of the blade by tilting the imaginary cut surface 10c including the straightly running portion of the blade in the opposite direction by an angle with respect to a line vertical to the longitudinal axis of ingot 10a such that shift B is equal to shift A. Subsequent to correction, cutting is further continued with the straightly running portion 18a of the blade whose inclination has been just corrected

An image reading apparatus has a data calculation unit (31,32) to calculate moving average data and second derivative data for a plurality of samples made of multivalued data, a position detection unit (41, 42) to detect first and second positions at which the moving average data and second derivative data have a predetermined relationship, a parallel region determination unit (5) to determine a parallel region based on the first and second positions, an inclination detection unit (61 to 64) to determine inclinations based on the parallel region, and an inclination detection unit (7) to correct image data based on the inclinations.

In a radiographic image detection apparatus that can perform long-size radiography on a region of a patient that is larger than the detection range of a radiographic image detector, radiography is performed so that a collimator image is included in a radiographic image in such a manner that the collimator image is present in the vicinity of a side edge of the radiographic image. Further, the inclination of each radiographic image caused by inclination of the radiographic image detector at the time of radiography is corrected based on the collimator image. Further, a synthesis image is produced by combining the plurality of radiographic images the inclination of which has been corrected.

The invention discloses a method for evaluating a near-well fractured crack through Gd neutron tracing yield imaging and particularly relates to the technical field of exploration and development of petroleum and natural gas. The method comprises the steps that a high heat capture cross section material Gd2O3 is added into a propping agent, by utilizing action of neutrons and Gd, Gd yields in different azimuths and the borehole macroscopic capture cross section are obtained through designed and combined array gamma imagers, and the near-well fractured crack is imaged; after a stratum is fractured, the propping agent with the Gd2O3 material with the high capture cross section is injected into the stratum; and mixed gamma energy spectrums in different azimuths are obtained through measuring of the azimuth gamma imagers, a crack imaging figure of the Gd yields on the periphery of a well is obtained after processing of the mixed gamma energy spectrums, and accordingly the azimuth, height, width and inclination of the crack are determined through the crack imaging figure. Compared with an existing evaluation technique of radioactive cracks, non-radioactive cracks and the like, the method has the characteristics that downhole crack recognition is visual, radioactive pollution is avoided, recognition of the azimuth, height, width and inclination of the crack are accurate, and sensitivity is high.

An air mixing damper, which is displaceable in a direction substantially perpendicular to an air flow direction, is disposed between an evaporator and a heater core in a casing that constitutes a vehicular air conditioner. In the air mixing damper, a plurality of ribs are formed so as to project on a side of a dividing wall that divides an air flow passage, and rack gears, which are enmeshed with a shaft, are formed on an inner circumferential surface on the opposite side thereof. In addition, when the air mixing damper is assembled in the casing, in a condition in which the ribs are in abutment against a sealing surface of the dividing wall, pinion gears of the shaft are enmeshed with the rack gears, whereby jostling of the air mixing damper is prevented.

An apparatus for visually confirming a vehicle periphery includes a camera device which is attached to a vehicle, and which picks up a image in at least one direction at the vehicle periphery and a display unit which displays the picked-up image in the at least one direction on a display unit installed in the vehicle. The camera device is attached to the vehicle while a position of the camera device is inclined, so that a vehicle is at least partially taken in the picked-image in the at least one direction, The image-processing device carries out a rotation process with respect to the picked-up image, in which a scene taken in the picked-up image is inclined due to an inclination resulting from the position of the camera device, so that an inclination of the scene is negated, and which displays the scene in the display unit.

An adjustment method includes rotating a pair of magnifying glasses in directions opposite to each other using γ-rotation, and correcting inclination of an image, caused by the γ-rotation, by rotating the pair of magnifying glasses in directions opposite to each other using the β-rotation, given that rotation about each of axes XL and XR, which respectively correspond to visual axes of left and right eyes when an object distance is infinite in a condition of a primary position, is represented by the γ-rotation, and that rotation about each of axis YL and YR, which are respectively perpendicular to the axes XL and XR and are also perpendicular to a z-axis which perpendicularly intersects with the axis XL at a position of a deflector for the left eye and the axis XR at a position of the deflector for the right eye, is represented by the β-rotation.

An object is to provide a tire reinforcing layer forming device which can form, by a single device, plural reinforcing layers whose cord directions intersect one another. A reinforcing material piece 12A, which is distributed to an upper conveying path 72U, is affixed from a left end side of a drum 16 toward a right side, while the drum 16 is rotated in a direction of arrow CW. In this way, the reinforcing material piece 12A, which is affixed to an outer peripheral surface of the drum 16, falls to the right, i.e., rises to the left. Thereafter, similarly, the reinforcing material pieces 12A are successively affixed without gaps, and a first reinforcing layer is formed. Next, the reinforcing material piece 12A, which is distributed to a lower conveying path 72D, is affixed from the left end side of the drum 16 toward the right side, while the drum 16 is rotated in an opposite direction. In this way, the reinforcing material piece 12A, which is affixed to an outer peripheral surface of the first reinforcing layer, rises to the right. Thereafter, similarly, the reinforcing material pieces 12A are successively affixed without gaps, and a second reinforcing layer is formed.