Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Ekc Technology Inc.

Cannon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kanebo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshiba Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Akira Kuroda

Hidenori Matsuzaki

Nobuaki Tojo

Yuki Nishizawa

Mayuko Koezuka

Nobukazu Adachi

Takeshi Setoriyama

Takeshi Sugita

Minoru Hayasaki

Aoji Isono

Akira Yuza

Hiroshi Mano

Yoshinori Sugiura

Takeshi Niimura

Jun Azuma

Tatsuo Hamada

Takeshi Kubota

Ken Murooka

Noriyoshi Ishikawa

Yoshiro Tsuchiya

Chitose Tenpaku

Yoshiya Nomura

Taku Fukita

Atsushi Ogata

Takaaki Tsuruya

Michio Uchida

Yoshihiro Matsuo

Koji Yamaguchi

Toru Oguma

Tsutomu Shimano

Toshio Miyamoto

Hiroki Ogino

Kohei Matsuda

Noritomo Yamaguchi

Seiji Uchiyama

Yasushi Katsuta

Masao Umezawa

Yuji Nakayashiki

Atsushi Otake

Kenji Funaoka

Takuji Uesugi

Yoshiyuki Yamazaki

Kaori Noguchi

Junko Hirata

Hiroshi Kita

Hiroshi Goto

Akira Kato

Shinichi Sasaki

Masatoshi Itoh

Wai Mun Lee

Atsuyoshi Abe

Mahito Yoshioka

Shinji Hashiguchi

Motohiro Furusawa

Tetsuya Sano

Manabu Takano

Kouta Nakata

Yasuhiro Nakata

Nobuyasu Nakajima

Yasuo Yoda

Yasunari Kobaru

Toshio Yoshimoto

Susumu Takeda

Shizuma Nishimura

Hiroki Eguchi

Koji Uchiyama

Yohei Hasegawa

Masatake Usui

Yuji Ishikawa

Yuichi Obara

Yusuke Isomi

Yasumasa Nashida

Seietsu Miura

Hisashi Takeda

Hironori Uetani

Xinxiao Li

Takanori Matsumoto

Makoto Iida

Cass X Shang

An image forming apparatus includes, an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a sheet using printing toner and apply powder adhesive on the sheet, a fixing portion configured to heat the toner image formed on the sheet and the powder adhesive applied on the sheet by the image forming portion and fix the toner image and the powder adhesive to the sheet, and a bonding portion configured to bond the sheet with the powder adhesive by reheating the sheet having been heated by the fixing portion. The bonding portion is arranged above the image forming portion.

Image forming apparatus

A fixing apparatus includes a rotary member including a heat-generation layer with a plurality of rings, a temperature detecting portion configured to detect a temperature of the rotary member, a conduction detecting unit configured to detect a conduction failure in an opposing ring that is one of the plurality of rings of the heat-generation layer and that opposes the temperature detecting portion, and a controller configured to control the supply of power to the magnetic field generator. The conduction detecting unit includes a first magnetic core, a second magnetic core, and a current detecting portion that includes a detection coil. A length of one of the first magnetic core and the second magnetic core around which the detection coil is wound is less than a length of another of the first magnetic core and the second magnetic core around which the detection coil is not wound.

Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus

A first information processing apparatus includes a record set acquiring unit that acquires a record set, a record identification information acquiring unit that acquires record identification information, a concealing unit that generates a concealment record set from the record set using conversion information and generates concealment record identification information based on the record identification information and the conversion information, and a first transmitter that transmits the concealment record set and the concealment record identification information to a second information processing apparatus. The second information processing apparatus includes a second receiver that receives the concealment record set and the concealment record identification information from the first information processing apparatus and a data analyzer that analyzes each record in the concealment record set identified based on the concealment record identification information using a learning model or a numerical model.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product

An image heating apparatus including a sleeve having divided heat generating layers, an exciting coil provided in an inside space of the sleeve, a magnetic core provided inside the exciting coil, a temperature detecting element opposing one of the divided heat generating layers, and a current monitoring sensor. An induced current is generated in the divided heat generating layers by passing an alternating current through the exciting coil, and the divided heat generating layers generate heat. An image on the recording material is heated by the divided heat generating layers. The current monitoring sensor is configured to monitor a current flowing through the above-described one of the divided heating generating layers.

Electromagnetic induction image heating apparatus having a current monitoring sensor

An information generation system includes: an acquisition unit to acquire a set of records, each f which indicates a correspondence relation between a setting condition and a processing result for each processing, a generation unit to generate display information in order generate a display image based on the set of records, and a control unit to control a display unit so as to display the display image based on the display information. The display image includes the first area and the second area. Setting condition axes are displayed on the first area. Processing result axes are displayed on the second area. Value objects indicating concrete values of the setting condition are displayed at the setting condition axes. Value objects indicating concrete values of the processing result are displayed at the processing result axes. Between the value objects, relation objects indicating correspondence relations are displayed.

Information generation system, method, and computer program product

A cylindrical fixing member for use with a fixing device includes a heat generating layer and an electrode layer contacting the heat generating layer. The electrode layer is smaller in volume resistance value than the heat generating layer. The electrode layer is formed in a helical shape so that a helical axis thereof extends in a direction along a generatrix direction of the fixing member. One end and the other end of the electrode layer are electrically open.

Cylindrical fixing member, fixing device and image forming apparatus

Provided is a driving force transmission device including: an actuator () that, in a case where one of a first annular gear (), a second annular gear (), and a carrier () is an input member, another one is an output member, and the remaining one is a rotational member, causes one of the input member and the output member to rotate integrally with the rotational member. When driving force is inputted from the drive source to the input member and input member is rotated unidirectionally, the rotation direction of the output member in the case where one of the input member and the output member rotates integrally with the rotational member is reversed with respect to that in a case where one of the input member and the output member does not rotate integrally with the rotational member.

Driving force transmission device and image-forming apparatus

A sheet conveyance device includes first, second, and third rotating members and a switching unit. The first rotating member rotates in one direction. The second rotating member conveys a sheet in a first direction with the first rotating member rotating. The third rotating member conveys the sheet in a second direction, different from the first direction, in conjunction with the first rotating member rotating. The switching unit switches from a first state where the second rotating member contacts a sheet first surface and the first rotating member contacts a sheet second surface to a second state in which the first rotating member contacts the first surface of the sheet and the third rotating member contacts the sheet second surface by moving the second rotating member before a trailing edge of the sheet conveyed in the first direction is conveyed by the first rotating member and the second rotating member.

Sheet conveyance device, image forming apparatus, and image reading apparatus

An image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a recording material includes a tubular rotary member including a conductive layer, a magnetic core inserted into a hollow portion of the rotary member, a coil helically wound around an outer side of the magnetic core in the hollow portion, and a control unit configured to control a frequency of an alternating current flowing through the coil, in which the conductive layer generates heat by an electromagnetic induction in an alternating magnetic field formed when the alternating current flows through the coil, and the control unit controls the frequency in accordance with a size of the recording material.

Image heating apparatus

Disclosed is a cylindrical rotary member including a conductive layer; a coil disposed inside the rotary member, the coil including a helical portion having a helical axis that is substantially parallel to a generatrix direction of the rotary member, the coil forming an alternating magnetic field to generate heat in the conductive layer by electromagnetic induction; a core disposed inside the helical portion, the core inducing a line of magnetic force of the alternating magnetic field; a roller coming in contact with an outer surface of the rotary member to form a fixing nip portion; and a metal stay disposed inside the rotary member, in which an image on a recording material is fixed to the recording material by being heated at the fixing nip portion and the stay is disposed outside the coil and has a shape that does not form an electrical loop around the coil.

Fixing device

According to one embodiment, a graph processing system includes a specifying unit, a decision unit, and a generation unit. The specifying unit specifies a first record set corresponding to a first segment of first elements in graph data including a plurality of records. Each record has a first element and a second element. The decision unit analyzes the first record set on the basis of a predetermined rule, and determines at least one second record set corresponding to a second segment of first elements. The second segment is a part of the first segment. The generation unit generates a segment graph corresponding to the second record set.

Graph processing system, graph processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

According to an embodiment, a system includes an analysis generator, a trace difference generator, a program difference generator, and an analyzer. The analysis generator is configured to generate program information required in executing a program, generate trace information providing a description of an execution at particular timing, based on the program information, and generate a trace correspondence between the trace and program information. The trace difference generator is configured to generate a trace difference between first and second trace information. The program difference generator is configured to generate a program difference between first and second program information. The analyzer is configured to analyze a correspondence relation between the differences and the program information based on the trace correspondence.

Analysis system, analysis method, and computer program product

In a system according to an embodiment, program structure information may include interval information. Each interval information may include source code position information indicating a successive region on a source code of a target program and parent-child information for specifying a parent-child relationship with respect to the interval information. The program structure information may include a reference interval without a parent. A processing unit may specify the number of parents existing between each interval information and the reference interval as a depth of each interval information from the reference interval, and create display information by arranging the interval information on a coordinate system defined by a first axis representing depth from the reference interval and a second axis representing the parent-child relationship based on the depth from the reference and the parent-child information.

Program information display system and method displaying program structure information including interval information

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Yokohama, Japan

Akira Kuroda