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The invention provides a safe driving evaluation system that enables the driver to keep an intention high to practice appropriate driving for stopping the vehicle safely at the temporary stop position. The safe driving evaluation system comprises a wake-up call unit that executes a wake-up call to a driver if it is determined based on a current drive condition of a vehicle at a predetermined location before a temporary stop position that there is a possibility of not being able to stop safely at the temporary stop position; a ratio calculation unit that calculates a wake-up call ratio as a ratio of the number of wake-up calls, which corresponds to the number of temporary stop positions where the wake-up call was executed, to the number of passed positions, which corresponds to the number of temporary stop positions where the vehicle passed; and an evaluation information acquisition unit that acquires evaluation information based on the wake-up call ratio.

A refrigerator according to the invention can settle the problem of overgreat temperature increase of refrigerating chamber and simultaneously execute the defrosting of cooler used by the refrigerating chamber. Commonly the refrigerating chamber activates a fan used by the refrigerating chamber for executing the defrosting of cooler used by the refrigerating chamber in a freezing mode. Furthermore, the switching from the freezing mode to a cold preserving mode is executed independently from the detection result of cooler temperature sensor used by the refrigerating chamber. At a state that a special condition is satisfied, the fan used by the refrigerating chamber is activated in the freezing mode and the defrosting of cooler used by the refrigerating chamber is executed (step A202, A203). Furthermore when the detection result of the cooler temperature sensor used by refrigerating chamber is above a first preset temperature (YES in step A205), the switching (step A208-A210) from the freezing mode to the cold preserving mode is executed.

Provided is a slip processing system and the like that improves work efficiency by reducing a burden of work for handling slips from merchandise sales. The slip processing system, which processes a slip issued at merchandise sales, comprises a slip printing device 4 as a slip printing means for printing a slip under the control of a slip management server 2 by means of a slip format suitable for merchandise purchased by a customer and given slip component information added to the slip format, a receipt issuing device 5 as a slip reading means for reading in a completed slip that is the slip printed by the slip printing means and then completed with accompanying information related to the sales, to generate slip image data, and a slip management database 20 as a slip image storing means for storing and holding the slip image data generated by the slip reading means. The work efficiency of slip processing can be thus improved.

The invention discloses a method for depositing a metal elementary substance thin film by atmospheric cold plasmas. The method comprises the following steps:step 1, mixed gas is excited and ionized togenerate the atmospheric cold plasmas, and the atmospheric cold plasmas form plasma light flame in a cavity of a nozzle; step 2, a metal compound solution is atomized and then enters the cavity of the nozzle; and step 3, under surrounding protection of the protective gas, the plasma light flame and fog drops generate action, solvent in the fog drops is evaporated, a metal compound in the fog drops is reduced into metal particles, and the metal particles are sprayed onto a substrate to be deposited to form the continuous metal elementary substance thin film. According to the method, the metalelementary substance thin film can be deposited under normal pressure, reaction temperature is low, the method is suitable for a heat sensitive substrate, a vacuum or closed deposition chamber is notneeded, so that the size of the substrate is not limited by space, and application range of the method is expanded; and the metal elementary substance thin film prepared by the method is stable in property, post-processing is not needed, so that the technological process is shortened, and production efficiency is improved.

The invention provides a liquid supply device and liquid ejection apparatus, with the capability of securing a relatively high bubble discharge ability at the time of the choke cleaning of the liquid ejecting head, even in a configuration in which the feeding pump type liquid supply section is provided. Enough liquid is supplied to the liquid ejecting head when performing a suction drive of the pump. A printer (11) comprises a liquid supplying device (21), wherein the liquid supplying device (21) comprises a pump (23), an unidirectional valve (44) for suction on upstream side of the pump (23), an unidirectional valve (45) for ejection on downsream side of the pump (23), wherein the liquid supplying device (21) is connected with a recording head unit (20) by a liquid supplying pipe (22). In the recording head unit (20), the middle of the liquid flow channel (30) communicated with a nozzle (29) is provided with a choke valve (31), a buffer chamber (32) and a self-seal valve (33) which are arranged in turn from the downstream side. The liquid volume obtained by the sum of the flow channel volume from the choke valve (31) to the nozzle (29) and the volume of a cover (26) is lower than the liquid amount driven by the pump form one time. In addition, the buffer chamber (32) comprises a liquid storage chamber partly blocked by the film and the film comprises the structure of non-spring force-application type which is not applied with force by the spring.

The invention relates to a laser irradiating device and a laser processing system using the same. The laser processing system comprises a laser source; a reflecting mirror for causing the laser emitted from the laser source to deflect by a deflection surface supported movably; a reflector moving mechanism for configuring the deflection surface to deflect correspondingly to an optical axis P1 of the laser and move in the optical axis P1 direction; a space modulating element for modulating the laser deflected by the reflector in space and forming opening light towards the irradiated surface; and a projection optical system for projecting the opening light formed by the space modulating element to the processed surface.

The invention provides a producing method of an overlay ceramic electronic component, which can prevent internal electrode patterns from erosion by solvents in ceramic slurry when ceramic raw slices are formed by coating ceramic slurry, is free of problems like reduced coverage rate and short circuit of internal electrodes, and can really manufacture overlay ceramic electronic components with high reliability. Each time when internal electrode patterns (3a, 3b) contacting with the ceramic slurry are formed, internal electrode slurry having solidifying resin and conductive components is adopted according to a manner enabling the slurry to become regulated patterns, and the solidifying resin is solidified.

A vehicular lamp (2) includes a frame member (7) of a lamp body (8) configured to be attached to a periphery of a lamp attachment opening (6) formed in a vehicular body (1), and a bracket (16) slidably attached to a back face of the frame member (7). The bracket (16) is slidable between a retracted position at the inner portion of the frame member (7) and a use position at the outer portion of the frame member (7).

A core bar for a track shoe of an elastic body is provided to reduce the weight by making a part of the core bar thin, and to prevent the elastic body from being deformed by forming a smooth rib reinforcing portion not to protrude the edge portion of the core bar. It is possible to secure a strength even when piercing a hole in the core bar and to prevent the elastic body from being cut by an edge portion of a hole. Accordingly, in a core bar (10) of an elastic body track shoe fastened to each pair of joint links of a crawler by bolts, recess portions (1a, 1b) formed in a substantially inverse-trapezoidal shape or recess portions (10a, 10b) formed in a substantially inverse-trapezoidal shape toward front end portions are formed in non-grounded surface sides of right and left wing portions in a direction of a crawler width. A recess portion (1e) formed in a substantially inverse-trapezoidal shape or a through hole (1f) may be formed in a center portion.

Provided is a drive device that reduces the time needed to write content data from a nonremovable recording medium to a removable recording medium, which occurs when content data is written to a nonremovable recording medium in order to write to a user-specified removable recording medium. The drive unit (300) of a recording device (100) of this invention is provided with a drive controller (320) that, upon receiving a write command indicating that data should be written to a specific area of the specified disk, writes the data to a memory unit (340) and records an association between the area of the memory unit (340) to which the data was written and the specific area of the specified disk. When the specified disk is inserted, the drive controller writes, to the specific area of the specified disk, the data which had been written to the memory unit (340), and also sends a data write complete notification to the issuer of the write command.

The invention provides a recording apparatus and recording method. A recording apparatus including a recording unit capable of performing a recording process in a recording area for various types of recording media, and a transport roller pair capable of transporting the recording media onto the recording area; the transport roller pair includes a drive roller which is provided with a drive roll portion having a width in a direction orthogonal to a transport direction of each of the recording media longer than a maximum width of the various types of recording media, and a slave roller which is provided with a slave roll portion capable of pinching the various types of recording media between the drive roll portion and the slave roll portion, a distance between the ends of the slave roll portion in a direction orthogonal to the transport direction is shorter than a minimum width of the various types of recording media.

The application discloses a medium transport device and an image reading device. Provided are a medium transport device capable of acheiving improved loading performance of a manuscript and the like to a top surface of the medium transport device and an image reading device. The medium transport device includes a base frame which includes an outer edge forming portion which configures an outer edge of a device top surface, a medium support tray which is capable of switching between a horizontal posture and an inclined posture, the medium support tray forming a portion of a flat device top surface when in the horizontal posture, and a sub-tray which is capable of being displaced between a storage position at which the sub-tray is stored at the lower side of the medium support tray and a pulled-out position at which the sub-tray is pulled out from the lower side of the medium support tray, and supports the medium at the pulled-out position, the sub-tray including a convex portion which configures a portion of the flat device top surface together at the storage position, and the sub-tray being capable of being displaced along a direction that is parallel to the device top surface in astate in which the medium support tray takes the horizontal posture.

The invention relates to an electromagnetic relay and a method for making the same. During the procedure of assembling the metal members of the auxiliary electromagnetic relay, each terminal of the IC (12) and the metal members (68) are made to be jointed via conduction under the condition of manufacturing the first auxiliary electromagnetic relay, thereby making them integrally formed with the metal members (68). During the procedure of removing the useless part, the useless part to-be-removed is changed according to the condition of making the first auxiliary electromagnetic relay and the second auxiliary electromagnetic relay. Therefore, under the condition of making the first auxiliary electromagnetic relay, the IC (12) is embedded as the delay unit. Therefore, under the condition of building a delay unit inside the auxiliary electromagnetic relay, the heat resistance of the auxiliary electromagnetic relay can be improved. In addition, by employing the common components and reducing the assembling problem of different components, the first and second auxiliary electromagnetic relays can be respectively made, thereby cutting the manufacturing cost.

The invention discloses a ventilation warm and cool mat. A non-toxic plastic hose is bent to form a plurality of pipes which are connected in an m-shaped manner or cut into a plurality of independent pipes which are arranged side by side; connection liquid or mixed sand and refrigeration components fill the pipes; two end openings of a sealing pipe are subjected to thermal pressing; a partition connection sheet or pipe is arranged between every two pipes; the pipes can be integrated by injection molding through a mold; the pipes are connected with a bamboo-strip cool mat; therefore, the ventilation warm and cool mat has ventilation and heat dissipation functions, can achieve the aim of enhancing the health of a human body by removing wet and hot air in winter and making a cool and comfortable environment in summer and is suitable for all sitting and lying tools for people.

Disclosed is a push screw device wherein: each push screw is arranged such that each rotationally driving shaft is disposed along the same straight line when viewed from above; the bottom end position in the vertical direction of each screw blade is the same and the spiral winding direction of these screw blades is opposite for adjacent screw blades; two push screws disposed at the center of the arranged direction of the push screws are the center screws, and the rotation direction of the screw blades and the supply direction of the raw material is the same, when the section between each of the rotationally driving shafts that contain these center screws is viewed from above.

A water purifying apparatus (1) comprises a tank (2) for reserving water, a circulation device (3), an ozone generator (4) for generating ozone, and a solar cell panel (5). An electric power for driving the ozone generator (4) and a circulation pump (7) is covered by a power generated by the solar cell panel (5). The electric power generated by the solar cell panel (5) is supplied to a controller (11), and further supplied from the controller (11) to the ozone generating device (4) and the circulation pump (7)(pump motor (71)) in a predetermined pattern. Thereby, the water purifying apparatus can be structured as a self-standing apparatus in which the connection of power supply lines can be eliminated, and which can efficiently purify water in various places and environments.

The invention provides a feed device capable of preventing repeat delivery of lower sheet member of the uppermost sheet member, when the uppermost sheet member loaded in a stacked state is delivered,the invention also provides a recording device. The feed device including: a loading unit in which a plurality of sheet members is loaded in a stacked state; a delivery member which performs a feed operation in a state in which a contact surface thereof is in contact with an uppermost sheet member of the sheet members loaded on the loading unit and delivers the sheet member by rotating of the uppermost sheet member; a gate member has an inclined surface with which a front end of the sheet member delivered by the delivery member collides with; the gate member is moved in a direction of the delivery member leaving by the the uppermost sheet after collision of the front surface and the inclined surface, and thereby a space capable of being passed by the uppermost sheet is formed between thedelivery member and the gate member. In further, the feed device also includes a rotary member applying a pressing force to the sheet member underlying when the front end of the uppermost sheet passing through the space.

A refrigerant piping according to a first aspect of the present disclosure is provided with dividing parts (162a, 162g), a first flow passage part (16a), a second flow passage part (16b), and merging parts (162b, 162g). The dividing parts divide the flow of a refrigerant at a refrigerant outlet-side of an evaporator (14) of a refrigeration cycle (10) and at a refrigerant inlet-side of a compressor (11) of the refrigeration cycle. In the first flow passage part and the second flow passage part, the refrigerants divided in the dividing part flow in parallel to each other. The refrigerants flowing through the first flow passage part and the second flow passage part merge at the merging part. The first flow passage part and the second flow passage part have flow passage lengths different from each other. According to the refrigerant piping, since the flow passage lengths of the first flow passage part and the second flow passage part are different from each other, a phase difference is generated between the pulsations of the refrigerant flow of the first flow passage part and the refrigerant flow of the second flow passage part, and an effect in which the pulsations cancel each other occurs. As a result, pulsation noise can be reduced. Also, the pulsation noise from the compressor can be reduced while maximally suppressing an increase in mounting space or pressure loss.