PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To create a rotary encoder needed with a small space, where the interval of axial direction between the detector arrangement mechanism and the coding disk is fixed and capable of being re-released again.

SOLUTION: A first constitution member group 10 is provided with a detection arrangement mechanism 13, a housing member 11.1 having at least one of wedge elements 11, 1...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus preventing a job from being interrupted as much as possible, maintaining print quality at a fixed level or above, without deteriorating user-friendliness and disturbing users, and preventing in colors and quality from being changed in the middle of a page, and treating a job having a large number of prints.

SOLUTION: The image form...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus which does not waste toner filled into a cartridge while protecting a developing unit.

SOLUTION: In the image forming apparatus, when a color cartridge is newly attached in a temporary help mode, it is judged whether the cartridge is new, when it is judged that the cartridge is new (S506:Yes), the toner empty is released for the ca...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a voice recognition device capable of accurately recognizing a word, even when a user utters a recognition object phrase by paraphrasing it to the other way of wording.

SOLUTION: A voice recognition processing section 113 recognizes a keyword included in utterance voice which is input through a microphone 130, by setting the keyword included in the recogniti...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a robot cleaner and its control method for diagnosing the failure of a bumper sensor by itself, stopping driving the robot cleaner and notifying the user of the failure diagnosis of the bumper sensor.

SOLUTION: The cleaner includes the bumper sensor for detecting collision with an obstacle in advance direction of the robot cleaner; a drive part for travel dr...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information access/search method via a data communication system.

SOLUTION: A query is applied to a document set, and a result set and a query-dependent subset of matching documents are identified. A document scope crossing the result set, a value, and related weight summary information are calculated, and weighting is carried out with a summary value met...

A single- or multilayer, white, biaxially oriented polyester film, comprises thermoplastic polyester and a coating on at least one side, where the R value of the film is smaller than 43 daN/mm2, the emax ratio of film is smaller than 2.5, and the coating on one or both surface(s) of film is adhesion-promoting, steam-sterilization-resistant layer composed of a hydrolyzed amino-functional silane. - ...

Disclosed is a gas cycle apparatus for a tire vulcanizer, configured to increase the circulating flow rate of a heating gas by preventing a gas feeder of the gas cycle apparatus from being subjected to an excessive load caused by a drain, and thereby capable of shortening the tire vulcanizing time by improving the temperature difference eliminating capacity in a bladder, to thereby allow the enhan...

The apparatus measures the output signals of conventional toothed-wheel type rotational rate sensors, and it processes them in order to extract measurements of a "jitter parameter". In typical applications, a minimal amount of jitter noise is always present. However, jitter levels differing significantly from said background noise are indication of wheel-flats or rail-track defects, the former bei...

The invention relates to a method of estimating the evaluated deviation between the position of a vehicle and a theoretical trajectory. The invention is characterised in that the deviation is evaluated by combining: (i) measurements provided by a device that is used to measure the position of the vehicle in relation to reference marks on the carriageway, and (ii) an estimation of the evolution of ...

A handle for use with a catheter, the handle including a housing, a cable, and a guide. The housing has a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis that extends from the proximal end of the housing to the distal end of the housing. The cable is disposed in the housing and extends through the proximal end of the housing. A portion of the cable that is disposed in the housing is movable, u...

A family of tire sizes are classified into plural groups every tact time and only sizes belonging to the same group are selected from the family of tire sizes and allocated in a plurality of vulcanization stations vulcanizing tires, whereby tires of plural sizes can be vulcanized at a mixed state for a given tact time without requiring middle stock for green tires.

To provide a polyester resin particularly useful in application to optical films, etc. A polyester resin which is an alicyclic polyester comprising dicarboxylic acid units and diol units, characterized by the following (1) to (4): (1) the dicarboxylic acid units are composed mainly of 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid units, (2) the diol units are composed mainly of 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol u...

A process by which nanostructured monolithic bodies can be produced in a single continuous operation, as opposed to multi-stage deformation processin g. The process generally entails continuously producing a chip (24) having a nanostructured microstructure by engaging a solid body (10) with a cutting edge (18) of a tool while the solid body (10) and the cutting edge (18) move relative to each othe...

The present invention relates to reducing the time required to provide an IP address to a mobile node by pro-actively obtaining IP addresses, through the use of PANA-assisted pro-active IP address acquisition, IKEv2-assisted proactive IP address acquisition, or by pro-active IP address acquisition us ing DHCP only. Where a DHCP is used to pre-configure an IP address in an MPA framework, a PAA gene...

A method for providing a portal for an individual to access a web site for establishing personal relationships. The method includes the step of providing a portal booth to photograph the individual while the individual is in said booth to produce a photographic record of the individual, correlate selected demographic data about the individual with said photographic record, and transmit the photogr...

Method, systems and apparatuses are described for processing and clearing derivatives products with a digital outcome and a plurality of constituents. A computer system can accept initial and adjusted performance bonds from buyers and sellers, and adjust the market price of the derivative product at intervals on a mark-to-market basis and through analysis of other credit information. As a result o...

Tools and techniques for converging terms within a collaborative tagging environment are described herein. Methods for converging divergent contributions to the collaborative tagging environment may include receiving respective contributions from users within the environment. The methods may identify at least some of the contributions as divergent, and enable the users to converge the divergent co...

The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for improving SIP parse performance. The method comprising the steps of: receiving a text-based SIP message to be sent to a SIP server; according to a SIP message filter table, determining whether the text- based SIP message needs to be transformed to a token-based message; and in the case that the text-based SIP message needs to be transfo...