SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.

To provide a thermal printer apparatus and a printing method that can be adapted to different types of thermal paper having different thermal conductivity characteristics, a dot data memory 3 stores dot data for each line in synchronization with line sequential printing and delivers an energizing pulse selectively to a line thermal head 1 via a driving circuit 2 . A multiplier 4 counts the number of dots to be printed for each line and multiplies a result of the counting by a heated thermal paper coefficient P 1 corresponding to a thermal conductivity characteristic of a thermal paper 42 . A heat accumulation counter 5 counts results of the multiplying in an accumulative manner. A multiplier 6 multiplies a count value in the heat accumulation counter 5 by a heat radiation coefficient and a heat radiation thermal paper coefficient P 2 corresponding to the thermal conductivity characteristic of the thermal paper 42 repeatedly at a predetermined period, so as to correct and update the count value in the heat accumulation counter 5 . An arithmetic unit 7 calculates an energizing pulse width based on the corrected and updated count value in the heat accumulation counter 5 in synchronization with line sequential printing, and controls the driving circuit 2 based on a result of the calculating.

Providing a piezoelectric vibrating reed which is capable of decreasing variation in the amount of etching residue as much as possible and suppressing influence of vibration loss on the vibration characteristics as much as possible. A piezoelectric vibrating reed 1 including: a piezoelectric plate 2 which includes a vibrating part 3 formed so as to extend along a central axis and a base portion 4 that supports a base end of the vibrating part; excitation electrodes 10 and 11 which are formed on an outer surface of the vibrating part and allow the vibrating part to vibrate when a voltage is applied thereto, wherein the base portion includes: a mounting portion 4 a in which mount electrodes 12 and 13 are formed on an outer surface thereof; an intermediate portion 4 b which is disposed continuously between the mounting portion and the vibrating part and in which an extraction electrode 14 connecting the excitation electrodes and the mount electrodes together is formed on an outer surface thereof, wherein the mounting portion has a greater horizontal width than the intermediate portion, and wherein a side surface of the mounting portion and a side surface of the intermediate portion are continuous to each other at a step portion between the mounting portion and the intermediate portion via a sloped surface 4 c that is sloped relative to the central axis in a top view thereof.

An organism information detecting apparatus includes a detector that detects organism information of a subject for a predetermined sampling time period, determines a motion state of the subject when the organism information is detected, and outputs an organism signal. A first calculator processes the organism signal to calculate organism information data, the detector determining a reliability degree of the organism information data based on whether the determined motion state of the subject is a previously determined motion state. A second calculator calculates an average value of the amount of variation per time of data obtained by digitizing the organism signal, the average value being data supplementary to the organism information data. The detector determines the motion state of the subject based on whether the supplementary data exceeds a previously determined threshold. A storage device stores the organism information data and the supplementary data such that the organism information data and the supplementary data are associated with one another.

In order to place both ends of a platen roller in bearing portions of a frame to perform accurate printing on a recording sheet with improved operability, a thermal printer comprises: a pair of concave portions ( 10 d ) provided to a frame to receive both end portions of a roller shaft ( 13 e ) of a platen roller ( 13 ) when a cover ( 8 ) is in a closed state; a pair of lock arms for automatically engaging the roller shaft ( 13 e ) of the platen roller ( 13 ) with the concave portions along with an operation of closing the cover ( 8 ); and a connection mechanism ( 30 ) for turnably connecting the platen roller ( 13 ) to the cover ( 8 ), and is characterized in that an axis of rotation of the platen roller ( 13 ) in the connection mechanism ( 30 ) is contained in a plane passing through a midpoint between the pair of concave portions ( 10 d ) to be vertical to an axial direction of the concave portions ( 10 d ) and is arranged parallel to the cover ( 8 ).

Provided is a sensor circuit that is small in circuit scale, but is capable of temperature compensation. A reference voltage circuit (BL 1 ) which compensates a temperature includes only a voltage divider circuit, and hence the sensor circuit is small in circuit scale. The sensor circuit is also capable of temperature compensation because temperature changes of reference voltages (VTH 11 and VTH 12 ) and reference voltages (VTH 21 and VTH 22 ) match a temperature change of an output signal (OUTA) of an amplifier circuit (AMP 1 ) which is caused by a temperature change of an output signal of a Hall element (HAL 1 ).

A display device has a display panel having a first substrate for displaying an image that is observed from a front surface of the first substrate. A translucent substrate covers the display panel from the front surface of the first substrate. The translucent substrate has a rear surface and a first light shielding portion on a periphery of the rear surface. A photo-curable translucent adhesive integrally bonds a front surface of the first substrate and the rear surface of the translucent substrate to each other. A first light reflecting portion is formed on the first light shielding portion of the translucent substrate. A second light reflecting portion is formed on a surface of the first substrate so as to oppose the first light reflecting portion through the photo-curable translucent adhesive.

Providing a piezoelectric vibrating reed which has low disconnection possibility and ensures reliability for stable operation without requiring strict exposure position accuracy. A piezoelectric vibrating reed 1 including: a piezoelectric plate which includes vibrating arms 3 and 4 , a base portion 5 to which base ends of vibrating arms are integrally fixed, and groove portions 6 which are formed on principal surfaces of vibrating arms; and excitation electrodes 10 and 11 to which vibrating arms are vibrate, wherein the excitation electrodes each include: a principal electrode portion 20 , a side electrode portion 21 and a connection electrode portion 22 , wherein the principal electrode portions are formed such that a horizontal width W 1 on the base end sides of the vibrating arms is smaller than a horizontal width W 2 in other portions so that a vacant area S is secured on a portion of the principal surface of each of the vibrating arms in the vicinity of a fork portion 15 , and wherein the connection electrode portion is formed to have a large width on the principal surface of each of the vibrating arms so as to come close to an opening end side of each of the groove portions by occupying the vacant area.

A sectioning instrument fabricates a section having an accurate and uniform thickness to be carried to a next step automatically without deforming a surface of an embedded block and while observing the surface of the embedded block. The sectioning instrument includes a sample base for fixing an embedded block, a cutter for fabricating a section by sectioning the embedded block, a carrier for carrying the section, and a feed mechanism for moving the sample base in a predetermined feed direction. The carrier includes a belt, a direction switching portion provided on an upper side of the cutter, and a rear roller. The belt is inserted to between the cutter and the direction switching portion from a rear side of the cutter, folded back to an upper side by the direction switching portion and is reeled back to the rear side of the cutter by the rear roller substantially in parallel with the feed direction of the feed mechanism in a plane view.

A piezoelectric vibrator manufacturing method includes a cavity forming step for forming depressions for a cavities on at least one of two wafers; a bonding electrode film forming step for forming bonding electrode films on bonded surfaces of the both wafers; a mount pattern forming step for forming a pair of mount patterns in the cavity; a through hole forming step for forming a pair of through holes in the cavity; a through electrode forming step for forming a pair of through electrodes electrically connected with the pattern in the cavity; a mount step for electrically connecting the pattern and a piezoelectric vibrating strip, a superimposing step for superimposing the both wafers and storing getter materials; a bonding step for anodically bonding the both wafers to fabricating a wafer member; a gettering step for adjusting the degree of vacuum in the interior of the cavity while measuring a series resonance resistance value; and a cutting step for cutting the wafer member into individual pieces.

Provided is a voltage regulator capable of performing appropriate phase compensation. Even when a difference between an input voltage and an output voltage is small, an appropriate phase compensation voltage based on an output voltage (Vout) is generated in a resistor circuit ( 19 ), and the appropriate phase compensation voltage is applied to a phase compensation capacitor ( 20 ). Accordingly, the voltage regulator is capable of performing appropriate phase compensation.