Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Masato Honda

Hiroyuki Kondou

Masahide Fukumoto

Yoshiya Shigenobu

A liquid atomization device includes: an inlet; an outlet; and a liquid atomization chamber. The liquid atomization chamber is provided in an air passage between the inlet and the outlet. The liquid atomization chamber includes a rotary shaft, a pumping pipe, a collision wall, a reservoir, and a drain port. The rotary shaft is rotated by a rotary motor and is disposed in the vertical direction. The pumping pipe includes a lower portion having a pumping port and an upper portion fixed to the rotary shaft, and is rotated in coordination with rotation of the rotary shaft to pump up water through the pumping port and centrifugally discharge the water. The pumping pipe generates, inside the pumping pipe, a whirlpool in the water in the reservoir by the rotation, and forms, at the center of the whirlpool, a void providing communication between the pumping port and the drain port.

Liquid atomization device and air cleaner using same

A printing device comprises a communication unit which executes communication with a mail server on a network, a connection unit to which a portable storage medium can be connected, a printing unit which executes printing, and a control unit which executes a mail acquisition process of acquiring an e-mail including a body and an attached file from the mail server via the communication unit, printing the body with the printing unit, and storing the attached file in a portable storage medium connected to the connection unit.

Printing device and computer-readable record medium storing program for printing device

A printer control device capable of performing a buffer memory clearing operation within a short period of time without complicating the control of the clearing operation. A RAM 8 stores an end address of an immediately preceding block of print data. CPU 6 develops a present block of print data received from a host computer into a buffer memory 8a so as to overwrite it on the immediately preceding block of print data which has been stored in the buffer memory 8a. When an end address of the present block of print data developed into the buffer memory 8a is smaller than the end address stored in the RAM 8, storage locations of the buffer memory 8a from the end address of the present block of print data to the end address stored in the RAM 8 are cleared. Then, the end address stored in the RAM 8 is replaced with the end address of the present block of print data.

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Aichi, Japan

Masato Honda