Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Ihi Corporation

Fujitsu Corporation

Sony Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Hitachi Software Engineering Company, Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Atsushi Mori

Terutoshi Kanamori

Yasutake Ohishi

Makoto Yamada

Makoto Shimizu

Yuusuke Isono

Kazuaki Iwata

Shinji Kato

Yuji Kobayashi

Yuuichiroh Uematsu

Hirotaka Ono

Akihiro Yasuo

Toshiyuki Shimada

Shinichi Aozasa

Kiyomichi Ichikawa

Yoshiro Ikeda

Ryohki Wakasa

Masaru Kumagai

Kouji Shikano

Masao Kato

Makoto Komatsu

Takashi Kurihara

Toshihisa Hyakudai

Kazuo Fujiura

Hiroshi Watanabe

Shoichi Sudo

Tadatomi Ishigami

Masatoshi Fujii

Katsuhiko Nishikawa

Yoshiki Nishida

Akira Asato

Kouji Enbutsu

Kiyoshi Oikawa

Takashi Sasaki

Toshio Watanabe

Takahiro Kobayashi

Noriyuki Yamamoto

Kenya Suzuki

Takashi Irie

Takashi Goh

Takashi Aoki

Hiroji Masuda

Hiroaki Kato

Hiroshi Yamazaki

Shuji Yamamura

Nobuyuki Ikeya

Manabu Sakai

Kohei Fujimoto

Tadashi Sakamoto

Mitsuyuki Bamba

Munetoshi Moriichi

Hideo Muroi

Kaoru Kataoka

Mikio Kamoshita

Takashi Toyoshima

Norihiro Nishiuma

Nobuo Takei

Naoto Nagaki

Keika Kan

Sadami Ouchi

Ayako Fujisaki

Takeshi Nita

Matsuhiro Usui

Munehiro Yoshida

Koyo Tani

Tomomi Mineta

A liquid circulation device includes a circulation passage, a liquid feeding device, a pressure sensor, and control circuitry. Through the circulation passage, liquid circulates to be supplied to and collected from a circulatory liquid discharge head. The liquid feeding device is configured to circulate the liquid through the circulation passage. The pressure sensor is configured to detect a pressure of the circulation passage. The control circuitry configured to acquire a characteristic indicating a relationship among a drive amount of the liquid feeding device, discharge information of the liquid discharged from the liquid discharge head, and a pressure detection value of the circulation passage; and change, based on the characteristic acquired, at least one of a control parameter and a calculation expression used to control the liquid feeding device.

Liquid circulation device, liquid discharge apparatus, and liquid circulation method

An article management system according to the present invention includes: an acquisition unit that acquires article identification information, which is read from a storage medium provided to an article that passed through an article arrival port and identifies the article, by using a wireless communication device provided at the article arrival port of a shop; and a registration unit that registers the article information in a storage device so that whether or not an arrival state of the article in the shop is an arrived state and whether or not a display state of the article in the shop is a not-displayed state for the article corresponding to the article identification information acquired by the acquisition unit can be extracted from the storage device storing article information in which the article identification information, the arrival state, and the display state are associated with each other.

Article management system, article management apparatus, article management method, and storage medium

A liquid discharge device includes a storage tank, a discharge head, a liquid feeder, a supply tank, a liquid path, a branch path, and a flow regulator. The liquid feeder is configured to feed liquid from the storage tank to the discharge head in a liquid feed direction. The supply tank is disposed upstream of the discharge head in the liquid feed direction, to store the liquid fed by the liquid feeder while being in a state open to atmosphere. The liquid path is configured to flow the liquid from the liquid feeder to the supply tank. The branch path is connected to the liquid path and configured to cause part of the liquid to branch from the liquid path. The flow regulator is disposed downstream of the discharge head in the liquid feed direction and configured to control a flow rate of the liquid flowing into the discharge head.

Liquid discharge device, image forming apparatus, and fabricating apparatus

A liquid circulation device includes a circulation path, a liquid feeding device, and circuitry. The circulation path is configured to circulate a liquid to be supplied to a liquid discharge head of a circulatory type and collected from the liquid discharge head. The liquid feeding device is configured to feed the liquid to circulate the liquid in the circulation path. The circuitry is configured to control an amount of the liquid to be fed by the liquid feeding device, on a basis of discharge information about the liquid to be discharged from the liquid discharge head.

Liquid circulation device and liquid discharge apparatus including the liquid circulation device

It is desirable to provide a technology capable of supporting reverse connection in which the front and back of a connector are reversed while expansion of circuit scale is suppressed. A reception control device is provided including a polarity detection unit that detects, as a polarity determination result signal, at least one of a polarity of a first reception signal received by a first reception unit or a polarity of a polarity inversion result of a second reception signal received by a second reception unit and a reception control unit that controls output destinations of a third reception signal received after the first reception signal by the first reception unit and a fourth reception signal received after the second reception signal by the second reception unit, on the basis of the polarity determination result signal.

Transmission control device, reception control device, and transmission/reception control system

It is desirable to provide a technology capable of improving reliability in light transmission and convenience at the time of connecting a transmission device to a cable with a simple circuit configuration. A transmitting device is provided which includes a connector receptacle unit connected to an optical-electrical composite cable, in which the connector receptacle unit includes a first electrode group, a second electrode group provided at a position rotated from the first electrode group by 180 degrees about a center of a main body of the connector receptacle unit as a reference, a first connection unit group for transmitting optical signals, and a second connection unit group for transmitting optical signals provided at a position rotated from the first connection unit group for transmitting optical signals by 180 degrees about the center of the main body of the connector receptacle unit as a reference.

Transmitting device, reception device, and optical-electrical composite cable

A positioning apparatus according to the present invention includes: a triaxial acceleration sensor zero point calculating unit which determines whether or not the moving body is performing horizontal plane uniform linear traveling, and calculates a zero point of the triaxial accelerations when a determination is made that the moving body is performing the horizontal plane uniform linear traveling, based on at least triaxial speeds, a longitudinal acceleration, and triaxial accelerations while the moving body is traveling; an apparatus housing attachment angle calculating unit which calculates a pitch direction attachment angle and a roll direction attachment angle based on the zero point of the triaxial accelerations; a triaxial angular velocity coordinate transforming unit which coordinate-transforms the triaxial angular velocities; and a position estimating unit which estimates a current position of the moving body based on at least a yaw rate obtained from the triaxial angular velocities.

Positioning apparatus and positioning method

A turbocharger includes: a bearing portion which is provided in a turbine housing; a shaft rotatably inserted into a bearing hole of the bearing portion; an attaching member fixed to the shaft; and a valve coupled to the shaft via the attaching member and configured to open and close a flow path opened to an internal space along with rotation of the shaft. The attaching member includes: a base portion provided with an insertion hole of the shaft; and an extension portion integrally formed with the base portion and extending from the base portion in a radial direction of the shaft to thereby hold the valve. The base portion is provided at least at a part of a range of the shaft in a circumferential direction of the shaft, and protrudes more in the radial direction of the shaft than the bearing portion.

Turbocharger

An image forming apparatus includes a latent image bearer, an electrostatic latent image forming device, a potential sensor, a toner image forming device, a toner adhesion amount detector, and circuitry. The circuitry controls the electrostatic latent image forming device to create an adjustment pattern on the latent image bearer when the image forming apparatus is not printing, controls the potential sensor to detect an electric potential of the adjustment pattern, controls the electrostatic latent image forming device and the toner image forming device to create a test toner image during a printing period, controls the toner adhesion amount detector to detect a toner adhesion amount of the test toner image, and adjusts at least one image forming condition of the electrostatic latent image forming device and the toner image forming device based on the electric potential of the adjustment pattern and the toner adhesion amount of the test toner image.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

A turbocharger includes a bearing portion having an end as an inner end surface located within a turbine housing in a penetrating direction of a bearing hole; a shaft rotatably supported in the bearing hole, one end thereof located within the turbine housing and the other end thereof located outside the turbine housing; an attaching plate fixed to the shaft, including an inner facing surface facing the inner end surface in an axial direction of the shaft; and a valve coupled to the shaft via the attaching plate to open and close a flow path opened to an internal space of the turbine housing. An inner radial groove is formed in at least one of the inner end surface and the inner facing surface. The inner radial groove extends in the radial direction of the shaft to allow a part of an exhaust gas flowing within the turbine housing to flow therethrough.

A turbocharger includes: a turbine housing including an internal space formed therein; a bearing portion provided in the turbine housing; a shaft rotatably inserted into a bearing hole in a state where at least one end protrudes more to an inside of the turbine housing than the bearing portion; and a valve fixed to the shaft and configured to open and close a flow path opened to the internal space. The bearing portion includes a protrusion portion which protrudes from an inner wall of the turbine housing. The radial hole of the protrusion portion penetrates the bearing portion in a radial direction of the shaft, from the outer circumferential surface of the bearing portion to the bearing hole.

An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, an optical scanner, a development device, a movable density sensor, a density sensor driver, and a processor. The optical scanner includes a light source to emit light, and irradiates a surface of the photoconductor in a main scanning direction with the light to form a latent image on the surface of the photoconductor. The development device develops the latent image into a toner image. The density sensor detects unevenness in density of the toner image in the main scanning direction. The density sensor driver moves the density sensor in the main scanning direction. The processor corrects a driving signal for the light source according to image data to reduce the unevenness in density in the main scanning direction, according to positional data of the density sensor in the main scanning direction and an output value of the density sensor.

Image forming apparatus having a density sensor movable in a main scanning direction

A turbocharger includes: a suction passage into which a fluid is sucked from outside of a compressor housing; an outlet passage that guides the fluid, which is sucked through the suction passage and compressed, to the outside of the compressor housing; an opening portion formed in a wall surface of the compressor housing and serving as an opening of the suction passage; a return passage which makes the outlet passage and the suction passage communicate with each other through the opening portion, thereby returning the compressed fluid from the outlet passage to the suction passage; and an air bypass valve which opens and closes the opening portion. A level of a bottom surface of the return passage located on a vertically lower side therein declines from the outlet passage toward the suction passage without ever rising.

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Atsushi Mori