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To provide an orthopedic apparatus with which a surgeon can perform a trimming operation safely without damaging blood vessels and nerves in the vicinity of an angle of jaw and without the need to make a large incision and a surgeon can perform a trimming operation by one hand with a smaller number of persons required for the operation.

The orthopedic apparatus has: a shank (11); a fan-shaped member (12) which is provided at the front end of the shank (11); and a coupling (13) which is provided at the rear end of the shank and to be connected to a driving source. The fan-shaped member (12) is inclined with respect to an extension (L) of the shank (inclination angle θ); file ridges (14) are formed on the fan-shaped member (12)'s surface (reverse side) which is oriented toward the rear end of the shank; and the shank (11) is constructed so as to rotate into a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction continuously.

A direction indicating device includes a fingerprint input unit, a fingerprint registration unit, a fingerprint authentication unit and a control unit. The fingerprint input unit inputs a fingerprint of a finger by being touched with the finger. The fingerprint registration unit registers a fingerprint previously as a standard fingerprint. The fingerprint authentication unit detects a matching part of the input fingerprint input from the fingerprint input unit and the standard fingerprint registered previously in the fingerprint registration unit by being associated with the input fingerprint by comparing the input fingerprint and the standard fingerprint. The control unit determines an indicating direction in accordance with a detection result of the fingerprint authentication unit.

The present disclosure relates to kits and associated methods for converting a semi-automatic firearm into a bolt single action firearm, as well as the converted firearm itself. The kit includes a housing (e.g. upper receiver) that accommodates a bolt carrier and a charging handle and a carrier key, if desired. The housing has ends which mount to the existing lower receiver of the semi-automatic firearm to convert the semi-automatic firearm into a manual bolt-action firearm.

Plural wok pairs composed of a plurality of works are stored in work storing means. A movable sensor 45 fitted to a conveyance robot 5 detects the position of one of the work pairs in the work storing means, and the work gripping means 25 takes out a plurality of works at one time from the work storing means. One of the plurality of works is held temporally by temporal work holding means 6 or 7 while the other work is conveyed to a jig Y. In the course of conveyance, a fixed sensor 63 detects the relative positional relationship between the work and the work gripping means 25. If the relative positional relationship deviates from the regular positional relationship, the movement of a robot arm 31 is corrected.

The present invention proposes a vacuum/high pressure filling apparatus which can improve the filling rate and shorten the impregnating time period in immersing a porous workpiece into a filling liquid. The vacuum/high pressure filling apparatus includes: an openable and closable hermetic partition chamber unit constituted by two upper and lower split partition wall unit portions, a partition chamber unit opening and closing mechanism to open and close the partition chamber unit, a vacuum suction opening and a pressurizing opening provided for the partition chamber unit, a liquid vessel arranged in the partition chamber unit to receive a filling liquid, a holder arranged, in the partition chamber unit, for the porous workpiece, an elevator unit to move the filling liquid in the liquid vessel and the porous workpiece relative to each other inside the partition chamber unit so as to immerse the porous workpiece into the filling liquid in the liquid vessel and pull up the workpiece from the filling liquid. When the partition chamber unit opening and closing mechanism brings the two upper and lower split partition wall unit portions into hermetic contact with each other, the partition chamber unit is closed and sealed. When the partition chamber opening and closing mechanism spaces the two upper and lower split partition wall unit portions from each other, the partition chamber unit is opened. By using the vacuum/high pressure filling apparatus according to the present invention, composite materials such as lubricant-impregnated metals, thermosetting resin-impregnated cast metals, etc. can be obtained.

An input processing device includes an input member having an input pad and a detecting section that detects a position where an indicator touches the input pad and a processing section that controls a display state on a display screen on the basis of an input signal obtained from the input member, and while an input tool for drawing at least one of character, symbol, and figure is being displayed on the display screen, the processing section displays a limited frame having a predetermined area on the display screen so as to overlap the input tool, and writes movement locus of the indicator touching the input pad within the limited frame and transfers the movement locus to the input tool such that at least one of the character, symbol, and figure is input to the input tool when the indicator touches the input pad.

A plurality of etchers such as poly-etchers 3 or the like are installed within a clean room 2. A duct 7 that is connected to all the etchers is connected to a PFC decomposition device 9, which is installed outside of the clean room 2. An exhaust gas which contains PFC as drained out of all the etchers within the clean room 2 is supplied by the duct 7 to the inner space of PFC decomposition device 9. After having heated up within the PFC decomposition device 9, the PFC is decomposed by the action of a catalyst which is filled within the PFC decomposition device 9. It is no longer required to provide a space for installation of the PFC decomposition device 9 in the clean room 2 with the semiconductor fabrication apparatus or the liquid crystal manufacturing apparatus installed therein, thus enabling size reduction or "downsizing" of the clean room. It is possible to reduce the size of a clean room in which a semiconductor fabricating apparatus or a liquid crystal manufacturing apparatus is installed.

An image processing apparatus which is capable of executing a processing flow without changing the contents thereof even when the processing flow includes a process that cannot be executed by itself. When a processing flow includes an unexecutable process, the apparatus transmits a request for confirming whether or not the processing flow is executable, to other image processing apparatuses, and receives a response indicating that the processing flow is executable, from any of the other apparatuses. The apparatus determines a transfer destination of the processing flow from the other image processing apparatuses. The apparatus generate from the processing flow a first cooperation processing flow including executable processes and a second cooperation processing flow including at least one unexecutable process, and transfers the second cooperation processing flow to the determined transfer destination. The apparatus displays an execution button for executing the first cooperation processing flow.

A hybrid computer numerical control (CNC) machining center and a machining method thereof are provided. The hybrid CNC machining center has at least a cutting tool head, a laser cladding tool head, a laser surface heat treatment tool head, and a computer numerical control unit. The cutting tool head, the laser cladding tool head, and the laser surface heat treatment tool head are alternately installed in a tool holder of the hybrid CNC machining center. Users can accomplish cutting, laser cladding, and laser surface heat treatment operations for a work-piece just in one single machine, so that the work-piece is unnecessary to be moved between different machines. Therefore, the steps and the process time of the machining operations are substantially simplified.

Provided is a serial printer including: a reading unit configured to read a raster image from a manuscript medium; an analysis unit configured to derive a horizontal distribution of pixels darker than a background color of the manuscript medium in each band including a predetermined number of lines with respect to the raster image; a threshold derivation unit configured to derive a fixed threshold according to a length L of a section in which a cumulative frequency of the horizontal distribution of an edge of the band does not exceed a predetermined temporary threshold; and a movement distance control unit configured to reduce the movement distance of a printing head according to a section in which the cumulative frequency of the horizontal distribution from the edge of the band exceeds the fixed threshold.

Samples and dry chemical analysis elements, which are necessary for analyses of the samples, are loaded on a sample tray. Each sample is sucked with a spotting nozzle of a spotting unit and spotted onto one dry chemical analysis element. Analysis information, which contains information representing a type of analysis, is appended to each dry chemical analysis element. The analysis information is read with a reading device located such that, when a certain sample is located at a position for sample suction by an operation of the sample tray, the reading device reads the analysis information, which has been appended to a next dry chemical analysis element to be used for the analysis of the certain sample, at a position at which the next dry chemical analysis element is located.

A button-attaching device 40 includes a snap upper chuck unit 20. A button holder 10 of the chuck unit 20 temporarily holds a button 1, and the button holder 10 is then rotated by a rotating arm 21, so that the button 1 is transferred from the button holder 10 to a button fixing part 31 of an upper die 30.

A printer module includes a frame body, a drum, a print head and a print-head moving mechanism. The drum is detachably connected to the frame body. The print-head moving mechanism movably connected to the frame body moves the print head in a horizontal direction substantially perpendicular to a direction of gravity exerted on the print-head moving mechanism. The print-head moving mechanism includes: a shaft rotatably connected to the frame body; an actuating rod connected to the shaft and rotated to rotate the shaft; and an actuating member connected to shaft and rotated with rotation of the shaft, so that the print head is moved between a first position and a second position. Thus, the volume occupied by the printer module can be reduced, the user's operation can be simplified, the influence and interference of the gravity can further be eliminated to simplify the design of the print-head moving mechanism.

A measurement apparatus includes at least two or more radiation devices, at least two or more image capturing devices, and a measurement device. Each of the radiation devices radiates light such that a part of a radiation pattern overlaps a part of a radiation pattern from another one of the radiation devices on a measurement target. Each of the image capturing devices captures an image of a radiation region of the measurement target on which the radiation pattern of a specific wavelength light radiated by one of the radiation devices that is paired with the image capturing device is projected, through a specific wavelength pass filter that allows passage of light of a specific wavelength of the paired radiation device and blocks light of a wavelength except the specific wavelength.

The present invention relates to a thermoform packaging machine, comprising a controller and a film punch, which includes a lever mechanism, a tool, upper part and a tool lower part. At least one of the tool upper part and the tool lower part are movable by means of the lever mechanism such that the tool upper part and the tool lower part approach each other.

The present invention relates to a transmit-array radiofrequency antenna comprising: a support; a transmit-array arranged in a plane, called a transmission plane; at least one focal source fixed on the support and arranged at the focal length from the array; and a displacement mechanism for moving the transmit-array, the mechanism being connected to the support and being adapted to translationally move the transmit-array in at least one of the two directions in the transmission plane.